Re: OT: BIO:Melanie Tornberg
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] OT: BIO:Melanie Tornberg
- From: E*
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:40:39 +0200
Hello Melanie,
Monday, July 30, 2001, 3:40:48 PM, you wrote:
mtic> Hello,
mtic> I signed up for this group last week, but haven't had a moment to
mtic> unlurk. My name might seem familiar to some of you, since I've been
mtic> a member of iristalk group for a few months, and Ellen was nice
mtic> enough to help me out with some questions a while back. I only have
mtic> a few Siberians, but the more I have the more I love them, and they
mtic> really do well for me generally.
mtic> I recently got a few Siberians at the Maine Iris Society auction, but
mtic> in a stroke of horrendous bad luck, it looks like I lost Little Blue
mtic> Sparkler within a couple of days of planting it. It went like this:
mtic> I got a nice little clump at the auction, went home and planted it
mtic> that same evening, and then got hit by some unusually hot weather (in
mtic> the 90s) for about three days, and the poor baby FRIED. I was
mtic> watering it in the morning and evening before and after work, but it
mtic> didn't help - there's not a bit of green left on it. The other two I
mtic> got (Shirley's Choice and Ruffled Velvet) look a little better, still
mtic> have some green to go with the brown, and will probably survive.
mtic> It's not a bad spot for siberians, I have Butter and Sugar and an
mtic> unknown blue just a few feet away, so it's not shock from something
mtic> in the soil. As a matter of fact, the unknown blue is so vigorous,
mtic> that when I was thinning/dividing the biggest clump of them (which I
mtic> have to do every year, because they more than double every year and
mtic> are quite invasive, I couldn't cut through the rhizomes and root
mtic> system with my spade. I was so sad to lose LBS - I absolutely fell
mtic> in love with it at the society show last month. Oh, well.
mtic> Hope to learn a lot from you folks,
mtic> Melanie Tornberg
mtic> Zone 4/5 (or so the maps tell me...)
mtic> South Berwick, Maine
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I think the advice of Christy is good, as I myself this year saved two
very valuable newcommers which were comming to die and only shade but
with plastic box isolating direct sunshine have helped well and it
seems now they are safe. The leaves were almost died, but new ones
occured. All the time I have kept soil moist in deepnes about 25cm.
Temperatures at this time for us was quite unusual about 86F and it
continuous so I dayly examine those plants.
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Best regards,
Edmundas,Kaunas, Lithuania S*@kaunas.omnitel.net
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