Re: CULT: freeze damage
- Subject: Re: CULT: freeze damage
- From: D* E*
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:14:07 -0800
From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
Hello Folks,
My, Sunday afternoon turned out beautiful and about 10 degrees
warmer than predicted. The forecast was revised to a low of 32.
Soooo, I didn't cover any irises. The result - this morning I got up
to a 31 degree morning and everything covered by glittering frost.
Pretty to look at, but not friendly. CELESTE AZUL and the TB
with stalks out of the fans now have bloomstalks with the substance
of well cooked spaghetti. Leaves in the center of the fan in many
irises are laying over and soft where they emerge from the fan. The
LAs, spurias and daylilies all have a silver cast to their leaves
which I call freezer burn. Can't tell how much damage to those
buds just on the point of emerging from the fans, but I'm not hopeful.
That fast growing, soft center seems to be where the most damage
occurred and that is precisely where those buds sit. Maybe it's not
how cold the temps get, but what kind of freeze and what stage of
growth the plants are in. Mine have too lush, too early growth. I
think they were primed to get taken out by a late frost. I consider
it lucky that more don't have buds, considering the length and temps
we've experienced this winter. The outer leaves on the fans do not
appear to have suffered as much.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7
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