Re: Freeze Dried Iris!
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- Subject: Re: Freeze Dried Iris!
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:36:36 -0700 (MST)
>Went into the iris beds today for the first time since last Saturday
>expecting to see the worst! After nearly a week of day time temps not
>exceeding 20F and night temps getting as low as 2F with horrendous night
>wind chills, today was in the mid 50's. It's safe to go out side again!
>Lady Friend, one of my favorites, was standing tall with just the tips of
>some leaves scorched. Most of the rest fared similar but there were a few
>with definate freeze damage, River Hawk is one of them. Our poor JI's, all
>the new foliage that was a foot above the mulch now lays on it's side all
>brown and dead looking. but overall things are much better than I expected!
>:) I guess we were lucky in on respect, we had no bloom stalks forming.
>Hope everyone else in the freeze zone fared as well.
>
>Glenn
>
>Glenn & Linda Simmons Springfield, Missouri
>e-mail glennsimmons@msn.com or
>gsimmons1@juno.com or lindaAsimmons@juno.com
Dear Glenn and Linda: Not much damage here that I can see; but open blooms
are, or course, cooked. Will se if those early stalks can still produce
open blooms from late buds. I would rather have it happen now than a month
from now! That happened last year, but I was lucky, and the coldest it got
was 32F !!! Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC
