Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
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- Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR HELP
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 22:33:05 -0600 (MDT)
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
Well now at least I have something to do with some of my iris while I
solarize my beds this summer. Fortunately I have an extra refrigerator
so I won't starve or die of spoiled food poisoning while I try this...
:>)))
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
