Re: CULT: Climate

Hello Francelle
While spending the day on my knees, cutting off the dead stalks, scratching the rot off from so many rhyzomes with a spoon, spraying bleach where was rot, and piling loads of stinking muck on top of the pile of the not-to reuse- compost pile, i will be thinking of the cracks in your ground, the hard-hard ground that never gets any rain, of the sleeping iris, expecting some kind of moisture. 

I wish you all the patience in the world, and also a better year in 2008!
I'm going to loose many irises, with the rot that settles now after a bit of frost + the high moisture + nicer temperature.... 
Another way to select the tough ones...!

Once they have survived MY conditions, i should send them to YOU !
The final survivers should be the strongest on earth!

Loic
----- Original Message ----- From: "FRANCELLE EDWARDS" <FJMJEDWARDS@worldnet.att.net> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:26 AM
Subject: [iris] CULT: Climate
I am not getting any fall rebloom on anything. In fact, I seldom do in this 
hot valley of the sun.  Temperatures here are still in the nineties, and
it's November.  This has been the hottest summer ever with 32 days of 110
degrees and above.  Except for shade screen, I would have lost most of my
new seedlings.  If I get around to it, I will take a picture of a seedling
row where there was a hole in the shade screen that let the noon sun come
through.  It sure made a hole in that row.  Now that the day time
temperature is below 100, the irises are starting to green up and grow
again.  Rebloom, if any, will probably occur in January and, as usual, get
frozen.



Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

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