RE: CULT:Where did that come from

Good afternoon,

I don't chime in very often but thought I would add to this topic.

I live in south central Missouri an area that was homesteaded in the 1800's.
There are still some old abandoned one room cabins and old chimney
foundations out in the middle of nowhere with iris still blooming every
year. From some of the old timers here I have learned no one has live on
these abandoned home sites for better then 60-80+ years.

Many years ago a friend of mine had purchased some nice iris. After a few
years and they had not bloomed he dug them up and threw them in his compost
pile. The following year they bloomed. Apparently he had planted them too
deep. For years now when I dig up a unwanted clump that I could not give
away I would just break them into pieces and throw them along the wood line
and ditches around our property and sure enough most root on their own and
bloom in a few years.

Bob Benbow
Camdenton Missouri zone 5 
  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Ross
BeVier
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:46 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: RE: [iris]CULT:Where did that come from

We dig our commercial garden every year and every so often in the tilling
process a little chunk of who knows who rises up to the surface.  I throw
them out over the fence in a drainage ditch along the road where people come
to oogle the iris every year on our off days.  

Haven't seen anything yet but any day I expect to see something pop up out
there.  The chunks we miss and which grow out of planting pattern end up out
there as well.  

I half expect to see someone waiting out there one day to catch what is
coming over the fence.

Ross

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Loberg
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:28 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris]CULT:Where did that come from

Betty,
      So it is not only the Birds who drop seeds everywhere and propagate 
flora all over our earth?
      Seriously, I'd never heard of anyone doing this, I think it's cute.
      I always find it amazing when I've found irises surviving in abandoned

homesteads when hiking, knowing they've been unattended for 30-50 years.   I

know some of our older historic varieties can do it, but I do worry as to 
whether many of our newer varieties could do it.
Kitty Loberg


> Earlier this year, a Master Gardener group asked how irises sometimes just
> 'appear!'  I relayed this story as one possibility and they  really 
> enjoyed it!
>
> Years ago, an iris friend said he couldn't bear to compost left over
> rhizomes.  He would drive down the road and 'pitch' these irises into 
> fence rows or
> any friendly looking environment.
>
> Iris dumping is not so uncommon!
>
>   ________________________________________________________
> If you  don't cross them, you can't  plant them!
> Betty W. in South-central  KY Zone 6 ---

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