Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
- From: A* R* <r*@qni.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 04:44:07 -0600 (MDT)
At 10:50 PM 5/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
Well, I can't speak for tropical climates, but my aunt says she can
remember my great-grandmother doing it in SC when the winter was
unseasonably warm. We never knew whether or not it really helped, but her
iris were always gorgeous. (And she was such a mean-tempered old lady no
one would even think about arguing with her about it--they just dug up
whatever she told them to dig.)
Angie
Me & Dorothy are in Kansas/Zone 5
