[SpaceAgeRobin] Re: Fall cleanup


Hello Neil,

I just finished cutting the leaves back in my beds on Sunday.  I was 
too lazy to do so last year and I paid heavily with moth larva 
infestation so I'm pleased that I finally got it out of the way.  

DEVONSHIRE CREAM blooms faithfully for me but never with horns and I 
find this frustrating since I have made efforts to provide all the 
necessary supplements to the soil. Most Space Agers will always give 
me at least one horn as an indication the the SA generics are there 
but then they disappear.  Then there the group of SA's that never 
show even a proto horn.  DOCTOR NO qualifies as one of these plants 
that frustrate me to death, especially after seeing what it does for 
Patrick in Arizona.  Anyway, hopefully I'll come across something 
vigorous with horns from my seedling bed that I can send for trial in 
other gardens to see how it performs.  I'd be very curious to see the 
results.

On Tuesday, I was skateboarding in the street with my kids, on 
Wednesday, I arrived home to 7 inches of fresh wet snow to shovel ;-( 
Winter is officially here for me.  Yuck !!!

I think it's time to get my seeds in to the buritos for fridge 
germination, I'm a month late this year.  I guess somebody has got to 
be lazy here to replace our own Bill Burleson while he's off lookin 
for a new computer.

Chris 





--- In SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com, "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@c...> 
wrote:
> Now that leaves are down off the trees here, I can start fall 
work.  There's a lot of cleanup to do.  In some areas I had outbreak 
of borer--and was especially interested to note that a comment was 
made on Iris-talk about borer being more often noted where there was 
greenery hanging overhead.
> 
> I have an area where some vines straggle along a board fence.  
Right underneath them the plants got hit harder than most, despite my 
spraying (or, rather, having a friend spray while I walked around 
with him.  I'm still not up to doing much carrying...my abdominal 
muscles are still complaining about all the surgical assaults they've 
gone through these three years.  Thank God that's all over now!).
> 
> I think I may get rid of those vines, or sure whack them back.  I 
don't enjoy seeing chewed-on leaves or clumps suddenly starting to 
disappear from being eaten from the inside out, especially on ones I 
particularly like.
> 
> Did you notice, by the way, that DEVEONSHIRE CREAM was well up in 
the awards list, and even mentioned as a HORNED iris in one comment 
in the October (arriving in December) Bulletin?  Most folks don't 
realize it is one, as the SA trait seems to vary according to soil 
conditions.
> 
> Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC mountains





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