RE: Help
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- Subject: RE: Help
- From: C* S*
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 04:58:22 -0500
> I have a large wooden Whiskey barrel and some very large plastic tubs. The
> tubs are over 2 ft tall. Being new to growing Iris, could I plant in these
> and would you just leave them in for the winter etc. I am in Rhode Island
> zone 6
>
=====> Last year, I bought many older Chuck Chapman intros, because of
his great deal for judges. For whatever reasons, I potted them in every
small pot I could find, using horse manure with woodchips because that's
what I had handy. I covered them with a weed barrier cloth and put
leaves on top of that for the winter. Several times I thought about mice
and whatever getting under there, and etc. and didn't do anything about
them. We didn't have a good snow cover and it was very cold for many
weeks over the winter.
This spring, they didn't have very much in the way of root systems, but
enough to hold them in the soil in the garden when I planted them in
April. Lots of stress to force the bloom, maybe.
They have nearly all bloomed out there! and are just fantastic. Nice
foliage, great blooms and I can see increases all over the place!
---> So, I'd say, be sure you know that you have hardy iris and put 'em
in the pots and they'll be fine!
My new iris are mixed in with taller iris, and I'm wondering if they
need a bed of their own, but that's priority #27!
Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY This is zone 5b/6a
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