Re: Re: CULT: Scorch victims?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Scorch victims?
- From: D* E*
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 07:45:01 -0500
Linda,
I don't think my victims were the result of freeze/thaw. In terms of
late killing frosts, this was a very good year. Also, by the time
it hit (in between the arilbred bloom and TB bloom), I could
already identify the victims. I do think it is weather related
somehow, perhaps in a cumulative way. Those that got divided
last year and replanted in a refurbished bed were the most
affected. But I'm not at all sure this malady will have cultivar
resistant varieties. On some clumps I divided, one or two got
scorch and the third clump thrived. These were planted so I
could get a 'good show' in the clump, so the conditions were
the same. Also, I have a tendency to move really healthy clumps
(divide etc) and really poor growing specimens. Those in-between
ones tend to get left alone a year or two. And then there's that
grandmother iris. One of those 'can't kill it' cultivars - 3 clumps
of scorch out of about 12-14 (I gave them a whole corner).
One more comment - I was suspicious of some, but not all, of
these victims even last summer. I think I will probably have more
unless our weather gets a bit friendlier which doesn't seem very
likely at this point. I can't help but believe that it spreads somehow,
though not in a very obvious manner, but I can't determine why one
falls victim and one doesn't. The victims range from reluctant
growers to the vigorous ones.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7, USA - who is considering the practicality of a little
iris cemetery per Dave Silverburg's info, six inches under all with a
marker!
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