Re: TB: Cold Hardiness
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: Cold Hardiness
- From: E* C*
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:53:33 -0500
Sorry to hear about your TB losses, Laurie. It's one of the reasons why I
grow mostly MDB's, SDB's and the other medians. Sandra Barss seems to have
great luck with her TB's, though. She kindly shared some of them with me
last summer, and they've all come up strongly so far. I tried to emulate
the sunny warm conditions that she has in her garden, so we'll see what
happens there. Many of the MDB's and SDB's that I also moved to that bed
are setting buds.
A few of my new SDB's from last year are doing the same thing as your TB's -
seemed spongy a few weeks ago, but now that it's warmer, they have dried
out. They were planted on a slope, so they shouldn't have been wet at all.
Hopefully, there will be some signs of life soon. I often lose a couple of
irises ea spring, but usually I have another as a backup. Not this year.
yikes
El, near Winnipeg (about 20 minutes from Sandra)
Manitoba, Canada Z3
MIS & DIS Display Garden
-----Original Message-----
From: laurief <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: Cold Hardiness
>Unfortunately, my garden has suffered HUGE losses among the TBs this
>spring. I haven't gotten up the nerve to count, but I'll bet I've easily
>lost 100 or more cvs. The prolonged cold weather took out nearly
>everything planted last summer. Ordinarily, I see a lot of minor rot
>infections (spongy rzs) in early spring, but as soon as the weather warms
>enough, the rzs dry out, and the plants quickly outgrow any lingering
>rot.
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