Re: CULT: Hot weather planting

From: "James T. Leifer" <iristg@stjohntelco.com>

We are in Southeastern Washington State and ship our iris before our Wheat
harvest in late July.  Most of our orders are received by our customers
around the 15th of July.  We have found that there is close to a 90% bloom
the next season by doing it this way.  We still have a few customers that
prefer a September shipment and for those people we comply to their
request.  

We have also dug and replanted ourselves during this time frame, and have
had a very good bloom the next year.  Our rhizomes are dug from our ground
to a customers in less than a week.  When planted properly and taken care
of (or somewhat ignored after they're established) they do great.  Janet

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> From: Barbara Jackson <jacksonb@mb.sympatico.ca>
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT:  Hot weather planting
> Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 7:58 PM
> 
> From: Barbara Jackson <jacksonb@mb.sympatico.ca>
> 
> Hello Mark,
> 
> What gets me about receiving iris, and other plant materials from places
> outside my zone is that they THINK they KNOW when it is proper to plant
in
> my area.  I don't know how many times I have received plant material from
> Ontario and planted it in October when it should have been planted late
> August or early September.  I'm learning though.  I now request the
earliest
> possible shipping date and contact the company just prior to remind them.
> It worked great this year particularly with Chuck Chapman.  He sent my
iris
> early in August and every single one is now growing and well established.
> 
> Barb
> 
> Barbara Jackson
> jacksonb@mb.sympatico.ca
> "Sunny" Manitoba
> Zone 3
> 
> At 11:35 06/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >One thing the Iris sources could do is contact the person and tell
> >them when the proper planting time in their area is, so that shipping
> >arrangements could be made accordingly.  
> >
> >Mark A. Cook
> >billc@atlantic.net
> >Dunnellon, Florida.   
> >
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