Re: OT:Irises rotting in mail - Getting replacements
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT:Irises rotting in mail - Getting replacements
- From: s*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:30:59 EDT
In a message dated 9/27/2000 7:08:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
harrisfamily@coastalnet.com writes:
<< I have Irises that my mother mailed from New York
and Irises I purchased from Walmart and Lowes. >>
Lucy,
The Wal Mart and Lowe's irises have about a 75% -- 99% percentage chance of
not being the variety pictured or stated on the front. (Worse odds than the
ones you mention) Of the 8 or 10 I've bought from these sources only Edith
Wolford was as pictured. I know it's EW because the bottom branch "toes" as
EW does, and, of course, the color is the same, AND the standards are to open
for me (like EW).
Your mother's garden is in the same general climatic area. Plants from the
West Coast can have a problem acclimating. Some irises, old or new, from
many of the best hybridizers on the West coast cannot grow in the interior of
the US. Sad, but true. For fairness, the reverse is also true.
Also, this was a bad year for irises in some areas. Many things affect iris
growth and survival. BUT there may be some irises that YOU can never grow.
Everybody deserves a second chance.
Betty / Bowling Green KY USA zone 6
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