Re: OT: BIO:Melanie Tornberg
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] OT: BIO:Melanie Tornberg
- From: H*
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:19:25 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: <melanie-tornberg@idexx.com>
> it looks like I lost Little Blue
> Sparkler within a couple of days of planting it. It went like this:
> I got a nice little clump at the auction, went home and planted it
> that same evening, and then got hit by some unusually hot weather (in
> the 90s) for about three days, and the poor baby FRIED. I was
> watering it in the morning and evening before and after work, but it
> didn't help - there's not a bit of green left on it.
Melanie,
Don't give up on LBS too soon. A number of plants (not just irises) will
shed all their leaves under these circumstances. Watering too often can
actually hurt a plant so cut back to watering when the top 1/2" of soil
feels dry. If there's any chance at all that the roots are alive, throw a
large pot over the thing to give it shade, then sit back and wait a couple
of weeks.
Good luck.
Christy
Skip & Christy Hensler
THE ROCK GARDEN
Newport, WA
http://www.povn.com/rock/
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