Re: Who's right?
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Who's right?
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 06:45:48 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Mark Thornsburg wrote:
> > First of all you should expect your iris to bloom for you the first
> > year. If they are quality rhizomes you should expect this.
> this from Superstition Gardens. and then someone wrote that the didn't
> want a plant to bllom the first year, because then it wouldn't set
> increases, and yet another person wrote that the mother rhizome may be
> spent, but will make increases. Even though Sky Hooks has increased and
> put up new foliage, I could swear that a bloom stalk came out of the
> same fan it came out of last year. What's going on?
>
Another reason for your lack of bloom was the fact that you
planted in November. When I lived in Tarrant County, Texas, where you say
you are, November is much too late to be planting irises and expecting
them to take root and bloom the following spring since the peak bloom
there is among the earliest in the country. I would imagine you had
considerable heaving since you planted so late, and that most definitely
would cut down on the bloom.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
