Re: CULT: TB Fall Growth Question

Matbeach1@aol.com wrote:

>>> I am wondering about new growth popping up from transplanted
iris and new 
plants during the fall season. I suppose that this is good since
it indicates 
healthy root growth and nourishment; however, I am wondering if,
when the cold 
temps come, that growth should be cut back? I wonder because I
am seeing lots of 
new foliage popping up around some rhizomes I transplanted a few
weeks ago. 
It won't freeze here until late October, probably. <<<

I thought Mike lived in S. Carolina? I didn't know that S.
Carolina had a freeze before Wisconsin? Always learn things
here. ;-)

Anyway, up here in the real cold mountain climate, I never trim
back any bearded irises. Simply because they do better for me
left alone. I do trim beardless irises down to the ground. Same
reason...they do better that way. 

Depending on your spring climate, the proverbial brick on the
rhizome, may or may not be necessary. I never do that....Zones 4
- 7 seem to have that freeze, thaw problem. We are so frozen
that nothing ,usually. moves. This year it did and I went around
and around pushing the rhizomes back in the mud. I am afraid of
squashing the leaves with the bricks.  I need every smidgen of
green I can get when growth starts. Oftentimes, the late summer
new green growth is so very important to the plant. AND the new
green pops up green again in the spring or what passes as mud
season-spring here. It is possible to have the old green growth
frozen and not frost burned. But that is here not S. Carolina or
CA.

Mike, you will just have to experiment to see what works in your
garden. Good luck.

Ellen (has anybody heard from Mark Cook in FL??)



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Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com /Berlin, New Hampshire - USDA Zone 3 
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