Re: RE:fall rebloomer show & Mulch



Gordon & Loraine Nicholson wrote:
> 
> Hi Iris Friends, just a note to say that region 14 held its fall
> regional in Campbell Ca on Saturday. The rebloomer show was one of the
> largest I can remember, well groomed iris and show very well done. Some
> new seedlings showing great promise of interesting rebloomers in our
> futures!!  Rick Tasco was the speaker, he also showed slides of very
> promosing intros. By the way we had one inch size "hail" yesterday,
> stripped everything that it touched, all our wonderful rebloom is just a
> memory now!! Hail brought down our cloth roof on iris storing barn,
> looked like a winter wonderland for hours yesterday, two wreaks within
> minutes took down 30 feet of fence line including iris, roses,etc:
> Fortunatly no one was injured. Guess you know what Gordon will be doing
> today once he gets off his "real" job!! lorraine at woodland iris
> gardens

I should add that the next day we had 2 hours of Judges Training on
Rebloomers conducted by Larry Lauer. Also in attendence with additional
information and guidence were George Sutton (and Margaret) and Gigi Hall.

Now here is a bit of unusual for you all. The garden we were in was on
hard pan clay onto which was dumped anywhere from 12 to 24 inches of
chipped tree mulch. They get the mulch from local tree pruners. It is
the large chip mulch that comes from the chippers used to grind up the
trees they take down or trim.

The irises are planted as usual with the top of the rhizome exposed and
they are going bananas! Their one year clumps look like they have been
there 2-3 years. It was just amazing. We found very little signs of rot.
I would not necessarily recommend this for everyone particularily in
very humid conditions, but I think I may try it in part of my garden.
They do take great care to keep the tops of the rzs clear of the mulch.

John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.
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