Re: CULT: Plant in spring?
- Subject: Re: CULT: Plant in spring?
- From: M* A* C*
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:01:31 -0500
From: "Mark A. Cook" <billc@atlantic.net>
Steve Szabo wrote:
>
>Last fall I purchased some rhizomes at a club sale. However, before I
>could plant them, I took ill, and was not able to get them into the
>ground prior to it getting too cold to do so. I have kept them in a
>paper bag in a cool spot hoping I could plant them in the spring. Is
>(was) this a good plan? Am I asking for any problems, other than
>perhaps, not getting any bloom this spring/summer?
Steve,
Most likely, your rhizomes will still be alive. I would recommend
that you go ahead and plant them in the spring, as soon as it is
possible to start setting things out. The Irises will grow, but bloom
is not likely this year. You should get great bloom in 2000.
When I lived in Kentucky, a neighbor ordered some mixed Irises,
[before I joined AIS] then forgot to plant them. The next spring, the
Irises were set out. One bloomed that spring, and the second spring the
bloom was spectacular.
Mark A. Cook
billc@atlantic.net
Dunnellon, Florida.
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