CULT:Is potting TBs really necessary \ u
From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
Gee whiz , All this talk about potting is making me wonder if people are
going to extremes for the common TB cultivar. When my rhizomes came
from Sutton's in July , they were tossed them into my son's little
wading pool for an hour and planted directly into the scorching hot
sunshine with a handful of bonemeal each . I made sure I watered them
deeply before bed and did the same immediately after work with great
results , even with the record breaking heat waves that we had here this
year. BTW , I've enjoying rebloom as I speak on Low Ho Silver and
Istanbul with stalks on Glowing Seraphim and Immortality. The other
thirty or forty new TB additions are increasing impressively.
I do admit though , that if I was dealing with forty or fifty dollar
introductions , I'd be tempted to pot. Why does it always seem that the
more you worry about a particular rhizome , the slower it grows....
By the way , I grow only bearded iris , and my comments are concerning
bearded only.
Chris Darlington
North of Montreal where somebody must have stopped by the house and
dumped a bunch of young cats in the yard , now I'm stuck with Broue qui
Broutte climbing the walls. Her doesn't take kindly to visiting felines
and wakes us up screaming in the middle of the night , it's like he
have a white Mountain Lion in the house now. gurrrrr !
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