RE: RE: TB Planting After Hurricane

Couple of things;
From your description I am unsure of what you consider to be a definition of "damage" to your iris. Can you expand on that. (if it is just the foliage they will be fine)
Also not sure of how wet your iris beds are. Are they under water? or just very wet? How long have they been wet? If they have only been very wet due to excessive rainfall for a few days I do not think you will have much of a problem. Rain and exposure to the elements is not necessarily going to damage them... they are after all relatively hardy outdoor plants... 
I really would not consider digging up established plants unless they were in danger of being totally swept away by rushing flood waters.

Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario  Canada  zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
E-mail:  c*@netcom.ca
CIS website:  http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: BOB & LESLIE LIDDIARD [mailto:liddiard@esn.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 21:20
To: iris-talk
Subject: [iris-talk] RE: TB Planting After Hurricane

Hi All,
 
It's nice to be able to get back to the computer after Hurricane Floyd has left us.  Goldsboro, NC, did not escape Floyd's furious winds and torrential rains and flooding, but it  has not left the entire county totally under water.  Most of our power has been restored and my area is still under a boil water order.  The Nuese River is still rising and not expected to crest until sometime on Wednesday and many homes and businesses closer to the river are under water.  We lost a beautiful Bradford Pear tree and are trying to save a young tree planted 2 years ago that almost blew out of the ground.  After cleaning up the trees, helping my husband somewhat with the roof, we can finally try to devote some attention this week to the iris beds.  All are severely damaged.  Tomorrow I go out to make a closer inspection to see if there is any rot, but it appears that they will all have to come up from the soggy mess that they're in and go into pots (at least temporarily) until the ground dries out.  I decided not to plant my shipment from Sutton's, just in case Floyd did hit us hard.  For once common sense won out.  We haven't had any winds to help dry the ground out and now we're expecting more rain from the tropical depression starting tomorrow night.  Would everyone agree that I should just try to transplant the existing beds into pots for now rather than take the chance for more rain to damage them possibly more?  Any suggestions would be helpful.  I'm grateful that all to the north and south are safe after Floyd.
 
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