OT-BIO: Lorraine


WINTHROP UNIVERSITY                               Electronic Mail Message
                                        Date:     20-May-1997 01:53pm EST 
                                        From:     Lorraine C. Terzo
                                                  TERZOL
                                        Dept:     Modern Languages
                                        Tel No:   803 323-2231

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _smtp%"iris-l@rt66.com" )

Subject: OT-BIO: Lorraine

Hello there, my name is Lorraine, and I live in South Carolina, where our
season is well underway.  I recently purchased a house where the garden
is full of Irises.  I was able to transplant some that where growing under
bushes and such.  There were still so many that are overcrowded and in need
of separation.  I'd say that less than 10% of them bloomed, but the ones
that did where magnificant.  I don't know what their species are.
There are, though, many varied colors.  Purple, which was gigantic, yellow,
white on the bottom with purple on top, white, and also burgundy.

I do have a few questions concerning their future:
  
1.  Should I cut away any dead, brown leaves, and should they be cut once
    they have bloomed?

2.  When should I plan to transplant?

3.  When uprooting the rhizome, can only the part with sprouting leaves be
    planted.  Can I also plant the part of the cut away rhizome that does 
    not have any green on it, but has just roots? Should this be separated
    at each notch?

4.  Does the rhizome need to be exposed when planting, or can it be buried
    in a shallow position?

5.  What of those bulbous looking things that appear where the bloom was?
    Can they be "recycled" into anything that might grow?

Well, I guess that's a few things I've been wondering about.  If anyone has
any suggestions, I sure would appreciate them.

Thanks...Lorraine Terzo

my e-mail address is:  Terzol@winthrop.edu
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