Survival

Linda,

I'm interested what kills off your iris? Excessive moisture? I live in Los
Lunas, NM and iris grow like weeds here. I have lost iris to scorch and cut
worms, but thats about all.

Cindy Rivera
Los Lunas, NM  zone 5/7
AAS, ASI, SIGNA, HIPS, DIS, MIS

> From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
> Subject: [iris] 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.
>
> - --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8

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