Re: CULT: seedlings - mad week
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: seedlings - mad week
- From: C* M*
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 05:28:10 +1000
Jan
How can you possibly have time to sift through all those pots? I went potty
(forgive me) at the thought. I've quite a lot of seedlings emerge this
spring from the pots that were planted 18 months ago.
This is our maddest week of the year. Les and I are both on leave from our
jobs and we're still working more than 14-16 hours a day. The gardens are
open Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues, so someone has to be here for all the visitors.
The Internation Rose Festival runs Thurs - Sun and the Iris Show is Sat and
Sunday.
To make the Rose Festival affordable were having a 9x6 metre display area,
and we get a 3x6m selling area. It was a lot dearer to have a 50/50 selling
and display setup. And are the organisers fussy about the displays. So we
have to set that up today. We're making a "garden bed" out of potted roses
and potted irises by using wooden railway sleepers for an edging, putting
the pots on plastic and covering with pea straw to hide the pots. We started
digging yesterday. Have to do the bulk of the digging on Wednesday and
they've forcast rain. Yum, I "love" digging in the rain. I'm not sure where
we will be inventing the time to wash, trim and label the plants. We also
have to pick a bloom of each of the 50 or so varieties we're taking. We
have a lovley couple to help us with the selling at the Rose Festival and
I'll do the Iris Show on my own. Fotunately my step daughter-in-law (Naomi)
and her husband and little one are living with us for a year or two. So
Naomi can look after the garden visitors. This week they are cooking,
cleaning etc and throwing food at us whenever we get a chance to stop for 30
secs. My 3year old daughter will go to my sisters on Saturday but will prob
have to come with me on Sunday, but she is absolutely angelic at trade shows
and will just play under and around the back of my stand. Naomi's husband
will be baby-sitting their 18 month old, all weekend. It's mad, mad peak
bloom season. I'm deperate to do some pollinating and photographing but
can't see that happening this week. I wish my 19yo foster-son wasn't such a
typical 19 yo and could actually exert himself a bit, still he does help
look after the little ones sometimes.
Fortunately the weather forcast is for showers clearing on Thursday and a
fine weekend.
I only get time to write this as at 4.30 am it's still too dark to be
digging.
Colleen Modra
South Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: seedlings - long
> >For bearded I keep the original pots 2 years. Does anyone keep them
> >longer?.
>
> I presume you mean you transplant the seedlings from these pots, and keep
> the pots on to see what else germinates?
> I have been doing that this year, but only to see if I get any late
> seedlings. I then go through the potting mix and collect all the seeds I
can
> find, and scatter them amongst the sibling seedlings. Last years seedlings
> have a few tiny siblings coming up next to them.
> My seedlings are mostly growing 3 or 4 to a 12" pot, and I am having
little
> trouble discarding the flowering seedlings, as I need their pots. Crosses
> that are not giving any interesting blooms, I am also discarding their
> siblings which have not flowered.
> The only cross which has interested me so far is the CHERRY CHILD (SDB) X
> YES (TB) cross, which is giving lots of peachy/orange blooms with bright
> orange beards, and either brown pumila spot markings, or an overall brown
> wash on the falls. Some of these are nicely formed and ruffled, so I am
> going to keep the unbloomed siblings (about 30 of them) until they bloom.
> I don't see any problem with having to seperate the plants in the pots, as
> so few will be kept after bloom.
> I grow my PCI seeds 3 or 4 to a jiffy pot, and plant the little peat pots
> into larger pots, when the seedlings are ready to go outside. Some plants
> are blooming with 2 or 3 different flowers, because there are 2 or 3
> different plants mixed together. This looks rather attractive if you are
> just growing them for garden effect.
>
> My PCI seedlings sent from Vicki Craig last year, are blooming now, and
some
> of these are rather lovely. I also have some interesting purples coming
from
> a selfed cross of DEEPENING SHADOWS.
> I haven't been taking many photo's or doing many crosses so far this year.
> My days seem to be alternately extremely busy, or rainy.
> Cheers, Jan Clark, Australia
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