OT: Hot, HOT, & Dang HOT in OK - AGREED
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- Subject: OT: Hot, HOT, & Dang HOT in OK - AGREED
- From: M* C*
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:02:12 -0400
Kathy,
Where in OKC do you live? I live in Bethany out by Lake Overholser on the
northwest side of OKC.
Yes, the heat has destroyed my yard. My daylilies will be in bloom
probably about on-time if I can keep watering them.
I attended the Iris shows 3 Sundays in a row at Will Rogers Park. The
first & last ones were held by the Sooner Iris Society. #1 was an
excellent show from a viewer's standpoint. The second one held by Oklahoma
Iris Society (I think that's the proper name) was fair. The last one was
mostly beardless iris as a driving rainstorm during the couple of weeks
interval completely wiped out all blooming iris - only those that were
budded continued to bloom. My own experience was that most of those
bloomed from ground level as the wind blew the stalks down and no way could
they have been used for 'show'.
Can't much blame Paul Black for moving to a more temporate climate - he had
to make a living from iris. I just enjoy mine.
Mickey Corley
Bethany, OK Zone 6/7
mcorley@compuserve.com
Message text written by INTERNET:iris-talk@egroups.com
>Afternoon...
Spent 3 of the last 4 days on a whirlwind trip to a big famous Daylily Farm
(3 of 42 acres planted in nothing but wall to wall daylilies at complete
peak
bloom) down in SE Texas... When I left here, I still had spurias in
bloom...
We only had a little under an inch of rain while I was gone, but temps
started rising up into the 90's. Yesterday it hit 97 and today I think it
made it closer to a hundred... Needless to say the Spurias are completely
cooked and iris bloom is completely and totally 100% over for the year...
The Japs never had a chance, missed their miracid dose. I don't ever
remember the irises being gone so early in May...
Never ever even heard how the last OKC show on May 14th fared. I missed it
as did all I talked to. Had so little to take anyway, it wasn't worth it.
Then the show closed so early neither I nor Rex Matthews (who was on the
'99
National tour) even had a chance to make a quick zoom over to check out the
show. A show only opened to the public for 3 hours makes me question
whether
or not all that time and effort is worth it (IMHO)...
Daylily bloom in Oklahoma was predicted to be early, but appears to be
right
on it's normal time table, although the heat of the last few days really is
starting to bring the scapes up and the buds popping out with color
everywhere... The daylily bloom down in Texas was about as fabulous as I
have ever seen (even including the early Florida Mecca bloom last year,
mind
you I had to come home May 3rd). The Texas trip was definitely fruitful as
I
brought home a #2 tub full that I must go out and start getting into pots
for
their move to the shade...
May have been a good iris season, but it was sure a quick one...
Kath, back in OKC..... =^.^= alias: Kathy Poore AIS Region 22,
USDA
Zone 7
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