Re: CULT:Cold in the Confederacy

Hi Walter,

Please don't chunk your Louisianas.  You say you have waited for 3 years to
see a bloom.  Well, I love Lilacs along with my Iris and I HAVE WAITED 5
YEARS for them to bloom.  They have had blooms but I am the one last year to
kill the bloom.   They predicted bad weather and the buds on the Lilacs were
beginning to open so I rushed out with the biggest trash can I could buy.

Well, the next day it warmed up way to fast for me to get out fast enough.
So I burned the buds.  It took all summer for those Lilacs to recouperate.
So I made up my mind never to interfer with Mother Nature again.  So this
year, I have gritted my teeth and closed my eyes and not even looked for
buds in this -20 degree wind chill.

So anyway, on my way back to the straw bales I looked down and my bulb iris
were blooming.  They hadn't been blooming the day before so imagine my
surprise!  They are nuts.  Guess I lost the rest of their bloom for the rest
of this spring.  So take heart, maybe your Louisianas will make it next
year.  If you truly want love them and think that they are worth the effort
then  have you ever thought of a cold frame that is removeable when the
weather gets warm enough?   It may be a little more time but it can be made
to where it is easy to pull to another site that you can then use for
lettuce or other vegetables or whatever else.  But they would certainly save
your Louisianas.
Linda Owen Simmons
Glenn & Linda Simmons  Springfield, Missouri
e-mail glennsimmons@msn.com or
gsimmons1@juno.com or lindaAsimmons@juno.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter A. Moores <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: CULT:Cold in the Confederacy


>
> I just came inside after a quick survey of the garden after three
>nights with temperatures in the lower twenties.  It appears the Louisianas
>have been damaged the most, particularly the tets.  They have that nasty
>white leaf in the middle of the fan which tells me that bloom will be lost
>for another year on them - three years in a row now because of late,
>disastrous freezes.  That's too long to wait for bloom and they probably
>will be chunked this summer.
>
> Some bearded look freezer burned, especially early bloomers like
>LADY FRIEND and Blyth varieties.
>
> JI's show no ill effects.
>
> A versicolor or two show the white 'Louisiana leaf' in the center
>of the fan.
>
> Sibtosas look ok along with the spurias.  Sibs are not up enough
>to show any effects of the cold.
>
> I pulled back the blankets on the seed bed, and the little inch
>tall babies look all cuddly and warm under Caj's old blankies.
>
> Daylilies seem cooked medium rare.
>
>
> Oh, for the return of those thrilling days of yesteryear when we
>went for ten years or more in a row without even a threat of a late
>freeze.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
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