Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 06:54:22 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Bill Maryott 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.
> Bill Maryott Maryott's Iris Gardens http://www.irisgarden.com
>
I used to have a customer in Houston, TX who requested that I send
her TB rhizomes as late as possible, usually in November. She would let
them dry out over winter and plant them in February. She reported
excellent bloom as evidenced by the pictures she sent me. After bloom,
she dug the rhizomes and stored them in onion bags and tied the bags to
the rafters in her garage. The survivors were planted in late November.
She reported that rebloomer cultivars were the most successful with this
procedure.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
