Re: Rebloomer (?) HANDS UP
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Rebloomer (?) HANDS UP
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 05:37:32 -0400
In a message dated 96-09-27 10:50:27 EDT, you write:
>
>One of my summer-bought irises is Monty Byers' Hands Up.... does anyone
raise it, and does it rebloom for you? >>
It was given to me when I first joined AIS - bloomed once, and has since been
swallowed by the fescue. I just moved some of it to my 'corn rows' this
summer - can't tell you about re-bloom, but it seems to be a 'survivor' here.
However, its infrequent bloom here (especially with Lloyd's comment about it
being tender) may mean it will have problems in frost holler.
About those raised beds and pots - my experience has been that you may have
irises starting growth too early for your frost holler. The raised beds and
pots warm up faster, which may initiate growth early enough to give you even
more frost damage. For early bloomers, that can be enough aournd here in
March to prevent bloom entirely - they don't even try. Covering everything
with plant bed covers (Reemay (sp?) or whatever they use nowadays for tobacco
beds) during every freeze below 20o after jonquils are growing (trying to
think of a good indicator for Missouri....) or a month or two before last
frost works well, but is a nuisance. I used to do it, now I stick with the
later bloomers. Some of the earlier bloomers seem to be able to take the
cold better than others, but I have tried unsuccessfully to figure out how to
find them. Nobody seems to keep track of such things.
Gunnar and other friends 'across the great water' as my old neighbor used to
call the Atlantic Ocean - nowadays - hmm, sounds like one of those
mountain/Old English concoctions - probably from 'now on these days' . ??
Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east TN USA
