Re: Iris blooms on the Gulf Coast
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- Subject: Re: Iris blooms on the Gulf Coast
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:54:42 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Rick Tasco/Roger Duncan wrote:
> Rick Wiles wrote:
> >
> > I haven't had much luck with Irises here in Mobile, Alabama. I have a
> > couple of Blue Flags which have never bloomed and I recently planted a
> > few Japanese Irises. When do Irises usually bloom on the Gulf Coast and
> > should I be using Phosphates to increase the likely hood of blooms?
>
> Rick,
>
> I assume you are talking about the bearded iris. Your climate cannot
> provide enough cold for the bearded which they need in order to bloom.
> I would think that if they "could" bloom in your area they would do so
> sometime in April.
>
> Regretably,
>
> Rick Tasco
> Superstition Iris Gardens
> Central CAlifornia
> Zone 8
>
Several years ago when I was visiting on the Gulf Coast in Biloxi,
MS, I saw a gigantic, raised bed of bearded irises. Apparently, they were
surviving the heat and salt spray from the gulf for the leaves were very
green and the fans quite tall. As my visit occurred in the summer, I do
not know if they were successful in blooming or not. It can freze in that
area, and the wind off the water can chill one to the marrow in January.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
