Re: Preserving The Beautiful Iris Flowers

Nicki writes...

>My iris bloom in the spring - for several weeks - then they are all gone
>for another year.  I would love to find a way to retain and enjoy them.

Preserving the flowers is nice but there may be a better way...

IF you pick your iris purchases *carefully* and give them good care you can
add several months to your bloom time. We started with an MDB in May and
have only been out-of-bloom once since then. (Of course, we have had
monsoon like rains, an all time record!)

Here is a list of the cultivars we cut and took to an iris society meeting
yesterday...
AUTUMN BUGLER           F. Jones        86
AUTUMN ORANGELITE       Brown G.P.      61
BORDER DUETTE           R.G. Smith      66
GOLDEN ENCORE           F. Jones        73
PINK ATTRACTION         Hall E.         88

The previous week's bloom list included:
CORAL CHARMER           Wright          83
SNOW-IN-SUMMER          Cross           94
UNCHAINED MELODY        Mahan           R. 92

And, last year our unguicularis kept us in continuous bloom from late Oct
until middle March, skipping only three or four days after overnights
dropped into the teens (F.) We could hope to have a repeat this year except
we did not get the hot, dry summer unguics prefer.
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