Re: How do you order?
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: How do you order?
- From: d*@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:31:29 -0700 (MST)
>What I'm curious about is: when you send away for an iris you haven't
>grown before, do you order just one rhizome or bulb or do you order in
>multiples?
I just got into irising last year, and when I ordered my rhyzomes, I got
about 40 cultivars and, with the exception of "Before the Storm", I just
ordered one each.
>Does the quantity you order depend strictly on price (especially if it's
>steep per each), the *type* of iris it is (TB, JI, etc.) or what? If you
>order in onesies, do you wait to see how it does in your garden & then
>order additional rz or bulbs the next year or depend on increases to
>build your "drifts"?
I have limited space and I wanted to get as much genetic diversity as I
could because I had my mind set on hybridizing from Day 1. Additionally,
I ordered all sizes of bearded irises to have as extended a bloom season
as possible. To further extend the bloom, about 15%-20% of the cultivars
I ordered were rebloomers.
In some ways I regret ordering just onesies. Winter has not been kind to
my irises and many have undergone surgery to prevent rot from killing them
off. And so I'm forced to wait another year to see them bloom. Had I
ordered duplicates, I may not have been so unfortunate.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RBIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: Hybridizing Arilbreds, Raising Native Ohio Species Irises
