Re: Re: CULT: Blyth irises

linda Mann wrote:
> 
> All the comments on acclimatizing Oz imports are really interesting.  I
> admit I hadn't really thought about the shock to these poor plants,
> considering, as Betty sez, the shock of coming here from the west coast
> of the US is bad enough.  The need for dormancy/drying for a month
> surprised me.  I was thinking that if these arrive here in April, which
> I think would be early fall in Oz (?), they would be ready for their
> fall growth.  Then they would get summer dormancy here when they were
> 'expecting' winter dormancy.  And then maybe bloom in the fall?

A few of us in sunny southern California placed an order that arrived in
February 1999. I got six or so. They were planted promptly. One bloomed
the first spring. Most did not bloom the second spring, either. All are
growing well, and I expect good bloom next spring.

> 
> Any physiologists out there care to speculate on what is going on with
> these plants & why it's hard for them to get themselves adjusted to
> being upside down?

Well, to try to minimize the disruption, I planted them with the fans
down and the roots in the air. It didn't seem to help.

But seriously, folks, my GUESS is that in the short term a two-step
transition will be easier on the iris than changing both zone and
summer-fall/winter-spring (good name for a princess) simultaneously.

Gerry, getting silly again
-- 
g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles

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