Re: sending rhizomes south
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] sending rhizomes south
- From: "wmoores" w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:04:17 -0500
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On 23 Sep 2002 at 11:28, Arnold Koekkoek wrote:
. . . . . Anyway, while on the
> vacation tour I met people from Austin, TX, who are interested in iris
> and to whom I want to send some rhizomes next year. . . . . If any of you live, or have lived, in that area and
> have dealt with shipments from the north, I'm sure you can tell me
> what to do. Thanks in advance. Arnold
>
> Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
> 38 7th Street, NE
> Sioux Center, IA 51250
> e-mail koekkoek@mtcnet.net
>
>
>
Arnold, I used to live about 200 miles north of Austin, so I think my advice is valid.
If there is any way you could send the rhizomes now, it would be the perfect time for
planting. I can understand if you have already put your garden to bed that you
wouldn't want to be disturbing anything right now.
If you send them in the summer, the plants can be potted and put in the shade. I
got approximately 100 new rhizomes this year, and they are happily growing in pots
and are still in the shade. The first ones were potted in early July. I have from now
until about the first of December to get them unpotted, so I don't have to be in any
hurry. Our first cool spell of the season arrived this morning, and the wind is
blowing briskly out of the north. Fall is in the air and so is digging and dividing.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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