Re: Digest Number 358
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Digest Number 358
- From: m*@attglobal.net
- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 12:49:36 -0400
- References: <955269272.13119@egroups.com>
I have definitely had the borer chew through the stem. It doesn't happen often but when it does it usually happens to several. I have also had deer bite the buds off and spit them out but assume, if the cut is clean, they could also bite without going all the way through.
Margaret Boehm
Wilton, CT, USA, zone 6 where it is snowing heavily
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> There are 7 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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> 1. request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
> From: "Harold Peters" <harold@directcon.net>
> 2. Re: request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
> From: "Ellen Gallagher" <irisgardens@hotmail.com>
> 3. Oops - Carol's address - sorry
> From: "Ellen Gallagher" <irisgardens@hotmail.com>
> 4. OT:CHAT
> From: Dave Silverberg <sil1812@molalla.net>
> 5. Re: request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
> From: "Carol Warner" <draycott@qis.net>
> 6. Re: ID needed
> From: Jody Camille <j_camill@doe.ncia.net>
> 7. Re: ID needed
> From: Jody Camille <j_camill@doe.ncia.net>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 06:15:58 -0700
> From: "Harold Peters" <harold@directcon.net>
> Subject: request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
>
> There is a photo of a Siberian on iris photos that the garden owner thinks is Shaker's Prayer but would like confirmed. Will some of the sibrob experts please take a look over there and let him know. I posted a copy of my Shaker's Prayer for the owner to use and Edmundus posted some photos also.
>
> My first Siberian has bloomed already. It was in a pot of the ones I purchased from Leroy late last fall. The experience of overwintering potted Siberians was very successful. Now I will have to see how success I will be marketing them. If that isn't successful, then the experiment will be to see if I can oversummer them in pots.
>
> Harold Peters
> Beautiful View Iris Garden
> El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
> harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 11:02:45 EDT
> From: "Ellen Gallagher" <irisgardens@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
>
> Harold,
>
> Carol Warner (hybridizer of SHAKER'S PRAYER is a Sibrob member).
> Her e-mail address is:
>
> >There is a photo of a Siberian on iris photos that the garden owner thinks
> >is Shaker's Prayer but would like confirmed. Will some of the sibrob
> >experts please take a look over there and let him know. I posted a copy of
> >my Shaker's Prayer for the owner to use and Edmundus posted some photos
> >also.
> >
> >My first Siberian has bloomed already. It was in a pot of the ones I
> >purchased from Leroy late last fall. The experience of overwintering potted
> >Siberians was very successful. Now I will have to see how success I will be
> >marketing them. If that isn't successful, then the experiment will be to
> >see if I can oversummer them in pots.
> >
> >Harold Peters
> >Beautiful View Iris Garden
> >El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
> >harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
> >
> >
> >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 11:11:49 EDT
> From: "Ellen Gallagher" <irisgardens@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Oops - Carol's address - sorry
>
> Harold,
>
> Carol Warner, hybridizer of SHAKER'S PRAYER, is a Sibrob member. She
> would be the 'expert' in iding this Siberian.
>
> Her e-mail address is:
>
> draycott@qis.net
>
> Ellen G. / Berlin, NH USA / Zone 3 (where I. reticulata 'Clairette'
> is sprouting green and daffodils and tulips have emerged from the
> cold ground :)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 16:15:06 -0700
> From: Dave Silverberg <sil1812@molalla.net>
> Subject: OT:CHAT
>
> To all & sundry persons:
> I received a note today from Dr. McEwen and he wrote "Certainly this is
> a new 'First' for me and a lovely experience." He wrote "please express
> my thanks to each of these kind friends" who sent birthday greetings via
> e-mail, both on iris-talk and sibrob. Way to go gang!!!!
>
> Dave Silverberg
> Molalla, Oregon, USA, zone 7/8ish
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:01:38 -0400
> From: "Carol Warner" <draycott@qis.net>
> Subject: Re: request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
>
> Harold,
>
> I will try to see if I can identify the iris that someone thinks is Shaker's
> Prayer. I'm sure that I cannot make a positive ID from a flower picture.
> Shaker's Prayer is a plant and I would need foliage and growth habit, etc.
> for a better ID. If the person bought and planted Shaker's Prayer, then I
> can certainly tell it from other registered cultivars.
>
> I am not a computer person so I have no idea how to get to the photo. Can
> you give me an address and number or whatever is needed to find the picture.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carol
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harold Peters <harold@directcon.net>
> To: sibrob <sibrob@onelist.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 9:15 AM
> Subject: [sibrob] request to id potential SHAKER'S PRAYER
>
> > There is a photo of a Siberian on iris photos that the garden owner thinks
> is Shaker's Prayer but would like confirmed. Will some of the sibrob experts
> please take a look over there and let him know. I posted a copy of my
> Shaker's Prayer for the owner to use and Edmundus posted some photos also.
> >
> > My first Siberian has bloomed already. It was in a pot of the ones I
> purchased from Leroy late last fall. The experience of overwintering potted
> Siberians was very successful. Now I will have to see how success I will be
> marketing them. If that isn't successful, then the experiment will be to see
> if I can oversummer them in pots.
> >
> > Harold Peters
> > Beautiful View Iris Garden
> > El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
> > harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:15:44 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jody Camille <j_camill@doe.ncia.net>
> Subject: Re: ID needed
>
> I received the following message and told the author I would post it here
> in hopes that someone might help with the ID. Though she doesn't say so in
> her e-mail, I believe the author's irises are a tall bearded variety.
> Currier McEwen does suggest that in rarer instances, iris borers will chew
> the iris stem. Have any of you had this experience?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jody Camille
> NH's northernmost county where the crocuses will bloom soon.
>
> > I would appreciate it if you could answer my questions about the problem
> > I'm having with the iris. I moved into a home that already has iris
> > plants in the garden. However, something breaks the iris stem just
> > below the blossom. The iris blooms and hangs over. The blossom is
> > intact and whole but the base of it is gone. What kind of critter is
> > doing this?
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:15:44 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jody Camille <j_camill@doe.ncia.net>
> Subject: Re: ID needed
>
> I received the following message and told the author I would post it here
> in hopes that someone might help with the ID. Though she doesn't say so in
> her e-mail, I believe the author's irises are a tall bearded variety.
> Currier McEwen does suggest that in rarer instances, iris borers will chew
> the iris stem. Have any of you had this experience?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jody Camille
> NH's northernmost county where the crocuses will bloom soon.
>
> > I would appreciate it if you could answer my questions about the problem
> > I'm having with the iris. I moved into a home that already has iris
> > plants in the garden. However, something breaks the iris stem just
> > below the blossom. The iris blooms and hangs over. The blossom is
> > intact and whole but the base of it is gone. What kind of critter is
> > doing this?
>
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