ot-bio new guy
- Subject: ot-bio new guy
- From: C* D*
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:55:48 -0500
From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
Hello iris experts,
I'm new to the world of irises , last year I decided
to rescue my Mother's iris patch that had long since stopped blooming ,
her answer to the lack of blooms was to run over them with the lawn
mower , these irises bloomed for years and years and were never tended
to , on top of that they were planted in clay which made me all the
more curious to see if I could get them to bloom again. I have very
distant memories of seeing them in bloom as a child and remember saying
to myself that they were too beautiful to be a local wild flower. My
only goal in the iris world last summer was to get these rhizomes
healthy again , which in my opinion was a success. The hard part now is
the waiting for the snow to melt to see if the stalks go up. It'll be
like immortalizing my distant memories from two decades ago. I'm also
curious to see if the blooms look as I imagined them , I'm sure it's a
historic.
Anyway , sorry for all of that , I'd like to ask a few basic questions:
1)It's still winter here is Quebec ,zone 5b , I bought TB rhizomes last
weekend and wonder if I could get them started in pots indoors and
transfer them outdoors when it warms considerably. Any chance of them
blooming the first year if they're blooming size rhizomes ?
2) Has anybody on the list had any success performing crosses with
previously frozen antlers ?
3)Are there any Canadian online catalogues with photos besides
Mcmillen's that I could order from? Canada seems to be weak in the area
and ordering from the states can be mighty expensive .
So far , this is what I expect to bloom for the first time in my tiny
garden.
pumila , Golden Fair , Lavender Sparkle ,Azurea , and Violet
IB: Appleblossom
TB.Lake Placid , Interpol , Vandal Spirit ,Wines Rose, and some unknowns
that I purchased without identity tags.
Waiting patiently for the sun,
Christopher Darlington
Blainville , Quebec
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