REQUEST FOR HELP
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: REQUEST FOR HELP
- From: "* M* <b*@irisgarden.Com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:50:11 -0600 (MDT)
In our 20 years of commercial sales and literally thousands of customers
each year, I heard a story today I've never heard before. I have a
customer near Datona Florida that grows a large planting of tall bearded
iris with excellent bloom EACH year. The winter temperature rarely
reaches 37 or 38 degrees F which is not enough dormancy for normal iris
bloom. His secret is to dig all the rhizomes each year and refrigerate
out of the ground in a refrigerator for 4 weeks in the summer.
My question is to we have any members of the iris list living in
tropical climates (i.e. Lower half of Florida, or lower elevations of
Hawaii) that could duplicate this and confirm this is really factual?
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Bill Maryott Maryott's Iris Gardens http://www.irisgarden.com
