Re: travel report
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: travel report
- From: S*@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU
- Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 08:15:02 -0500 (EST)
Gunnar:
This was composed in a special file and I'll try to copy it onto this mail
file --
part of what you said begins the posting:
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and in various conditions, some looked like they had been growing for
some years in same pot ( I got a SDB pot that I later could divide to
6 plants). Wabash was the most vigorous TB there (old rhiz cut in half).
Must recommend you to visit Denmark some time, along the vinding roads
i saw lots and lots of beautiful gardens, and there were lots of garden
shops to make you ruined many times.
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This sounds wonderful!!
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Together with the Irisorders and a nice Iris growing friend here in
stockholm I have got an flying start with iris.
Not only Tb:s but I have also got BB:s , IB:s , SDB:s , MDB:s
Sibirians , pseudacorus , versicolor and laevigata
Next year , look up, then I will go for Japanese Iris.
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(it's " look OUT" , "look up" means something like, make yourself happy,
and is generally used as "things are looking up" or "after I eat, things
will look up" but that's generally, "things will be looking up")
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Nice variety you have!!
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So far only One Iris was suicidal and have decided to rot, UUGH what a
smell!! and that one rotted despite nice weather 80F without any rain.
__ to have smelled this is an unforgetable experience -- you must have
tried cutting the good part away, and etc. some are just destined to die,
as you noted!! keep the fertilizer away!! especially in the fall,
have you tried alfalfa??
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When you talk about hanging fat oregon rhizomes to dry, does that
concern iris from all major oregon grovers??
** did someone answer this Q -- my answer would be, yes, dry all large
fat rhizomes!! most everything from commercial growers in fact,since
they seem to think that the public wants fat rhizomes. just let them
sit around, maybe on top of the ground, or on the top of a pot for a week
or so till they root (onthe pot) or dry out** TAKE CHARGE!! growers do not
know what's best for them -- except for Clarence of course, and some
of the other "private" growers.
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Still beatiful weather here about 80F and even had some days with 90F
My best growing Iris so far is SUKY and SIGN OF LEO.
*** sign of leo reblooms quite reliably in the Western New york area!
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Regarding Colored Rhizomes : I have two types of an old iris here, the
blue type have the base of its leafes colored blue. So you can easy see
if that perticular rhizom is going to produce a yellow or blue flower.
very practical. (I'll send it to the coark board )
* ** I don't think this is reliable -- my rhizomes get a blue color at the
place where the foliage joins, this I always take as a sign of health,not
an indication of the color of the flower.
the blue haze on the foliage is a health thing, that's all.
other folks might have a response to that. As far as i know, there is no
way of knowing the color of the flower except by the .., well, color of
the flower!!
talk to you later -- Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
end of posting -- I think you can figure it out!!
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