Re: CULT: Frost protection

Let's hope your potted brought-ins make it all the way, Mary Lou. As you may recall, I dug one intact in a ball of earth last year and it bloomed nicely. Replaced in the ground after blooming indoors, it survived quite well, but didn't bloom in the spring. Was it because it had been disturbed? I'm sure many of us have seen newly acquired or relocated bare-root plants bloom within 2 or 3 months of being planted! Who knows what internal clock each individual variety has? -- Griff 

Zone 7 along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, in Virginia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Swann-Young" <MryL1@msn.com> 
To: "iris" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:50 PM
Subject: [iris] CULT: Frost protection



I wish you luck, Griff.  Never worked very well when I tried, even with old
winter coats instead of parkas.  But I didn't make an electric blanket.

That's partly why I potted a few and brought them in this year.  Was dying
to see them. Increases not far enough along for hope of spring bloom. Also 
hoping for additional growth in the sunroom over the winter.  I may have
waited too long to bring a couple of them in - exposed to a lot of cold for 
about a month now.

Still, when you raise about 100 for every one that reblooms (that's my
average
from crossing Z5RE with warmer zone RE), the ones that do are entitled to the 
royal treatment, at least until they show me they're not up to snuff.

Looking forward to seeing a photo.  Sounds exciting.

Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5

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