Re: Freeze
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- Subject: Re: Freeze
- From: "* S* C* <b*@mnsinc.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:44:27 -0700 (MST)
Mark,
I do not have buds or blooms, but I am especially tried to cover
the SDBs and MDBs because they are what I will be using for breeding stock.
Reticulata got frozen already, but was in full bloom.
Ryan
>> Irisers,
>> I am sitting at my computer, biting my nails in agony over this
>> freeze we are going to have. It will start tonight here. It is very
>windy,
>> and I have put down plastic but don't have enough to cover all the beds.
>It
>> will get as low as 15. Should I worry or put down the plastic?
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>Ryan,
> Hopefully, you have already gotten a better answer than I can give.
>If you have buds or blooms, you probably should put down the plastic. If
>you don't, they will be fine uncovered. Irises are tough plants when it
>come to freezes. Even if you lost all your blooms, the plants will live.
>
>Mark A. Cook
>billc@atlantic.net
>Dunnellon, FL.
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Ryan Carter
Five beds of irises, one hundred varieties
Half and half medians and TB's.
Winchester, VA
birddog@mnsinc.com
Youth Chairman of C & P Iris Society
AIS, DIS, CPIS
Visit my MDB homepage at http://www.geocities.com/~dwarfiris
Visit my Tree Frog homepage at http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/6617/
