Re: Wabash
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- Subject: Re: Wabash
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:46:15 -0700 (MST)
Merrily A. Smith wrote:
>
> What can anyone tell me about the typical growth habits of WABASH? I
> planted three rhizomes in my garden last June and they've been sitting there
> looking pretty much like the wax works museum ever since. They ain't dead,
> but they just don't seem to be growing much. I had high hopes for flowers
> this spring, but now I dunno. They're in with other iris that are booming
> along, so I don't know what to make of it.
Merrily -- WABASH is a slow grower, but worth waiting for. It blooms in
midseason. My notes after cropping the fans in the summer of 1991 say:
"All WABASH clumps seem dormant from mid-July (when they were cropped)
through Labor Day and then some." It stayed that way through winter. But
with spring came bloom. At the moment, the fans on my old established
clumps of WABASH are little more than half the height of most of the
other varieties in the garden.
Delighted to hear you have TB bloomstalks. That's what living in town
does for you.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA
jgcrump@erols.com
