Re: OT-Chat: I'm back

Dear Wendy

I use the plant labels from Diggers.  

Galvanised iron.  I paint them white and use a plant pen.  Find these 
are better than the venetians we use for the club beds.  

Venetians bend in our strong winds here and are hard to put in the 
heavy clay.  Colleens OK, she has sandy soil.

Regards

Dian Mitterer
Here is 'sunny' ?? South Australia.



--- In iris-talk@y..., "wendy sargeant" <wendon@d...> wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> Great to hear that you have made the move and survived the ordeal:) 
Also
> glad to hear that all the iris babies made it as well.I use my 
horse float
> for moving tricky specimens and find its enclosed quarters very 
secure from
> strong breezes, its bettter than the back of my ute any day...
>     Uh OH ..Sounds like you are going to have a bit of fun and 
games with
> your septic run off area..Fancy driving over the run off and aggie
> lines..Grr..It will look like a battlefield for a while but as you 
know,
> growing plants tend to hide all sorts of yuck..
> As to trading..No problems, just let me know in the next few months 
when you
> are nearly all settled in and can handle planting newbies...I have 
more new
> JIs this year and they are budding up already and doing well, 
despite being
> trodden on whilst dormant by big heifers hooves.Don thought it 
would be a
> good idea to walk the cows from one driveway to the other and didnt 
realise
> that my massive trench was planted...Yes I did shriek, but 
surprisingly they
> are all ok, including the greedy heifer who ate 2 plastic 
labels..Honestly
> my place is a madhouse.I must find a better way of labelling my 
plants.I
> keep loosing the labels via either strong winds and greedy animals 
who are
> already overweight....Any one got any good ideas? Maybe labels with 
massive
> spikes so they can really be ancored into the ground. But heavens 
know where
> one gets those.There are a few downfalls with rural 
life...availability of a
> few things can be limiting...
> Anyhow Glad to hear you are in you new home Jan, and surrounded by 
packing
> boxes no doubt...Cheers from Wendy Sargeant.Victoria, Australia.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@h...>
> To: <iris-talk@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:34 AM
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT-Chat: I'm back
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > wendy wrote:
> > P.S. Wonder how Jan is getting on with her move?
> >
> > Well, we have accomplished the move, and I still have a bout 5 
trailer
> loads
> > of plants to shift from castlemaine. I am trying to get all the 
TB's moved
> > before they bloom, so that the bloom stalks don't snap off in the 
shift.
> > The SDB's IB's and AB's came first.
> > Travelling at 80kph with a trailer load of irises, causes fairly 
minimal
> > damage, just a little bit of shredding on the tips, which makes 
them look
> > tatty. Travelling at 100kph causes much more leaf damage, and 
tends to
> tilt
> > the rhizomes so that the plants lean away from the wind, and stay 
that
> way.
> > I only made that mistake once.
> > The trip takes 40 minutes unloaded, and 1 hour loaded up. Any 
plants that
> > are tender, or have bloom stalks, travel in the boot (trunk), or 
in the
> car
> > with me.
> > I have had bloom on my AB Fankhauser seedlings, but couldn't find 
the
> camera
> > to get shots of them. Some are still blooming, so I will make an 
all out
> > effort tomorrow, when I will be home all day, to dig through the 
piles of
> > boxes and find the camera.
> > SDB's and IB's blooming:
> > Scion, Furioso, Murmur, Raspberry Jam, Hot Seat, Baby Blessed, 
It's a
> > Giggle, Little Buccaneer, Hum, many others I can't think of names.
> > I have had quite a number of seedlings bloom. Some nice ones 
again this
> year
> > from Cherry Child X Yes. Lots more buds on seedlings.
> > Better find that camera!
> >
> > The 'wet area' problem is major. The previous owners had never 
emptied the
> > septic tank, so the have had an overflow of solids, leaving a 
green scum
> in
> > areas. Also it looks as if they have driven over the drainage 
lines and
> > bloken the aggie pipes. We are looking into a high tech solution 
which
> will
> > free the garden of septic drainage. Thes will leave me with 
sufficient wet
> > areas for what I want to grow. The lower part of the block stays 
damp most
> > of the year.
> > Wendy - I look forward to doing some JI and Bearded trades with 
you, when
> > you are ready. I hope to get most of my Beardeds planted out by 
the end of
> > Autumn, and will have plenty to trade.
> > Cheers, Jan,
> > In Creswick Australia, where the top soil is deep, wet and 
gluggy, and the
> > beds will be well raised.
> >
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