Re: TB: HAIL!!!! Aaaaggghhhh!
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: HAIL!!!! Aaaaggghhhh!
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:04:46 -0400
From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
>From: ItsRoTalk@aol.com
>
>In a message dated 5/14/99 8:49:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BILLS@hsc.edu
>writes:
>
><< Each iris flower lasts only three days or so, to be
> replaced by others. In a few days, you will not see any sign of hail
> damage. >>
>
>This is true Bill, but I am at the end of the bloom and there are very few
>left to open! If it had happened 2 weeks ago I don't think I would have been
>as upset.
>
>Joni in Ga
>Der Joni: I am sorry that you had such hail damage. I had it happen when I
>was in Bloomington, Indiana, attending I.U. Not only did it ruin the open
>flowers, but the hail so marked the blooms that all succesive blooms were
>badly marred. I had lost everything the year before to a freeze. That was
>when I decided to go for the rebloomers, no matter what anyone said. This
>occured in 61 and 62, or possibly one year earlier, 60 and 61. The late
>Paul Cook of Bluffton warned me not to expect to have introductions in
>rebloomers until at least ten years, and he was close to being right!
>Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC.
>
>
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