Re: ROT
- To: <i*@onelist.com>
- Subject: Re: ROT
- From: "* &* b* p* <i*@pip.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:48:48 +1000
From: "heather & bernard pryor" <irishaven@pip.com.au>
>>From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
>>Meanwhile, across town in very similar soil -- in fact, soil from the same
supplier -- my friend Linda's irises have used up 12 gallons of bleach since
September. I'm not having anywhere near so much trouble. (I've only used
1.5 gallons of bleach. So interesting.
>
>celia
>s*@aristotle.net
>Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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Dear Celia,
Unless you have shares in the bleach company I would suggest that you just
stick to the wonderfully hardy Louisiana Iris. No rust, no rot, no
die-back, no pests, no problems....... Your poor friend Linda must be
beside herself with frustration and her garden must smell mightly clean.....
I know that life wasn't meant to be easy, BUT, I don't think we were meant
to spend our precious weekends pouring bleach on our Iris and getting upset
at them not performing as well as they should either. Perhaps you could
suggest that your friend Linda try something that is more relaxing and less
distressing to grow and still in the Iris family??? This would be my
well-meant suggestion.
(We also grow TB's, but have limited the number we grow so that we don't get
upset when they die out, rot or become salads for passing cockatoos who love
to chew the bloom spikes off at ground level, and then leave them to die.)
Heather Pryor irishaven@pip.com.au
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