Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Re: Fall cleanup

Chris

I also have a problem with Devonshire Cream. never even seen a protohorn on
it. Our climate is very similar to Sutton's as far as temperature goes, but
we have somewhat acid soil, and theirs is alkaline. Do you think it could be
pH related. I'm sure a lot of rebloom characteristics are pH related.
What's you pH, ours is about 6

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills AUST
zone 8/9

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Darlington" <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
To: <SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 5:15 AM
Subject: [SpaceAgeRobin] Re: Fall cleanup


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> Hello Neil,
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> 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
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> --- 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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