SWINGTOWN
Good morning iris lovers, In regards to the puzzlement about the growing
habits of SWINGTOWN, I can't offer anything about that particular iris but you
mentioned crepe myrtles. A few years ago I noticed that the daylilies I had
planted in between some widely spaced crepe myrtles hadn't bloomed the year before
and weren't going to that year either. I decided to dig them up and move
them. The ground was so compacted with surface roots, that I had great
difficulty even digging them up, some I was unable to remove without destroying the
plants. I knew that I would have ten begillion suckers coming up from the crepe
myrtles because one way to propogate them is to wound the roots and up pops a
new crepe myrtle. The only thing I have found that could survive the water
depleted, nutriant depleted soil was lantana though there is too much shade for
them to bloom before October when the CM drops its leaves. Perhaps those
matted CM roots are the "root" of your problem.
Barbara Null
Tyler, TX
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