CULT: survival

Sending details just to myself

Just finished tallying last year's purchases after excavating them from
the weed crop:

There are 112 different, new-to-here cultivars.  4 were registered prior
to 1990, the rest are more recent, one seedling (i.e., not mine).  Most
were single rhizomes.

46 have done well enough to have at least one blooming size fan now, 16
had more than one.  I'm being generous with some of these - about 8 of
these have fairly large fans but may not actually be blooming size.

Of the remaining cultivars, 24 died (a few bloomed before dying), 17 had
<tiny> little increases and will probably be dead by next season.  An
additional 11 had small increase, not big enough to bloom next year.
Most of these will dwindle and die.

Who knows about the rest - not near death, but not blooming size.

That's at least 24+17+11= 52 non performers.

About half a dead elephant <g>

I'm not complaining though - I was intentionally trying quite a few
newer things from folks like Blyth, Ghio, Byers, Burseen, Plotner,
Roberts, plus the usual late collection from Schreiners, looking at
bloodlines that I haven't tried here before, hoping for a few good ones,
not expecting more than half to survive.

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
photos archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>

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