Re: [sibrob]: Dividing Japanese Iris, just a suggestion
Hey, why don't we become the beardless iris robin?
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From: <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
To: <sibrob@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [sibrob] Re: Dividing Japanese Iris
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 rdhager@dmv.com wrote:
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> > Most of my JI's are planted in a swale that drains into a tidal river. I
> > have some plantins which are quite robust after 6 years, but others that
> > showed signs of decline after the fourth year. I have a few reject
> > seedlings down by the river that I basically ignore. They have been
> > quite happy for 7 years. I had a single clump of 'Nikko', White Flower
> > Farms' unregistered selection that was quite happy for 8 years in a
> > sandy loam garden which drained too rapidly. It was showing no signs of
> > demise, but I moved it out of fear that it would die. It almost did.
> > R. Dennis Hager
>
> Different cultivars seem to require division at different intervals
> (numbers of years) and also different drainage systems. If your yard has
> a flow of water through it the cultivars will take longer before
> requiring division. The flow of water could just be water coming out of
> the soil and moving down the slope away from your yard.
>
> --
> Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
> Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
> AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
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