Re: PCN SUCCESS STORIES, ANYONE?

From: daf10@cornell.edu (Dorothy A. Fingerhood)

Robert  wrote

	I did in fact obtain three of Lorena Reid's "Dotted Line" in hopes
>one 
>would make it between the transport, transplant, drought at planting time,
>and    winter. 

Good luck with these, Robert.  I suspect you are sharing the very mild
autumn we are having, which should give them extra time to get established.
I have found that beardless irises will generally do better for me if I can
plant them in the spring, and some shippers will oblige.

>Is
>it true though that besides initial planting time, they like to stay dry in
>the 
>summer (or is that just PCN's or both?). And I would assume dry doesn't mean
>without ANY water. 

I was not aware of this.  Although I have not "coddled" the established
Half-Magic or Beautiful Forty, I have given them water during dry periods.
Not a lot, but more than the other beardless (except for JIs) got.
Established beardless clumps of nearly any kind I have tried seem to survive
quite a bit of dryness, though they may not prosper.  

And, Maj--I have had success growing pseudacorus right along with the
Siberians.  I gave it extra water when I first put it in, and mixed quite a
lot of peat moss into the dirt, them mulched it.  Once established, it was a
very sturdy garden plant, grown just like Siberians.  

Dorothy Fingerhood      
Newfield, NY, USA  
USDA zone 4/5 most years--this year has been more like 6


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