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Mar 26, 2014 8:19 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
It's official. I have lost Arthouse. Crying She was planted in the fall of 2012, she bloomed in the spring of 2013, she died in the winter of 2013/2014. There were no increases, the mother rhizome was fully rotted out. I can't hardly stand it -- I think I was more excited about that Iris than anything else in my garden last year. And the location for her was great -- she was planted nearby to the beautiful NOID red Irises that Tom sent to me, and they are doing GREAT! Lots and lots of healthy increases -- each of those rhizomes will be a clump this year.

Go figure.

RIP Arthouse:


Anybody have a healthy clump of Arthouse that they can spare a rhizome from this year? Sad
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Mar 26, 2014 8:22 PM CST
Name: Bonnie Sojourner
Harris Brake Lake, Arkansas (Zone 7a)
Magnolia zone
Region: United States of America Region: Arkansas Master Gardener: Arkansas Irises Plant and/or Seed Trader Moon Gardener
Garden Ideas: Master Level Dragonflies Bulbs Garden Art Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Gardens in Buckets
I don't have Arthouse but I am sympathizing. Arthouse is beautiful! I hope you find another soon and I hope it does well.
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Mar 26, 2014 8:35 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
I can help with that one it's done well Smiling
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Mar 26, 2014 8:55 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Oh yay Brad!!! Then it's just a fluke of this awful winter, and not a weakness in that cultivar?
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Mar 26, 2014 10:12 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
It has definitely been a horrible winter for a lot of us and if it survived through this years winter in Iowa it is not a weak cultivar. Smiling You may try moving it to a different bed sometimes I plant them and they just sit there and do nothing, so I move them around to a different spot in the yard and it takes off and does great. At least you will know it is hardy coming from here we had many 100 degree days in July and -55 wind chills in January if a plant lives through that it should do well just about anywhere. Smiling
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Mar 27, 2014 3:23 AM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Sorry for your loss, Mary Ann. Crying It's always the good ones it seems. I have Art House too, but I almost lost it that year I didn't treat for borers. It's coming back, and I am hoping it blooms this year.
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Mar 27, 2014 5:51 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Isn't that the truth, Tom? It's always the good ones -- or at least, the ones most important to us. I have lost Swazi Princess too. The rhizome that I planted in a pot and brought into the house, has also died. Totally don't understand this one -- this Iris has survived everything thrown at it for almost forty years, including a move from Chicago to Kentucky when it lived in a box for a month and was planted in November!!

So if I gave anyone here a Swazi Princess rhizome last year when I thinned and replanted that Iris -- if it does well for you and you have increases in the future, please remember to share back a rhizome with me. I could probably find it to re-purchase, but there's a sentimental reason for wanting *that* particular Swazi Princess. Not her, of course, but one of her daughters.

Brad -- thanks for all that information regarding Arthouse -- I feel better now. Smiling The location was a great one -- lots of sun, excellent drainage -- all the Irises that I planted in that area are thriving. Maybe I just got a weak rhizome -- that's got to happen once in awhile, don't you think? Anyway -- thanks for your kind offer!
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Mar 27, 2014 6:23 AM CST
Name: Bonnie Sojourner
Harris Brake Lake, Arkansas (Zone 7a)
Magnolia zone
Region: United States of America Region: Arkansas Master Gardener: Arkansas Irises Plant and/or Seed Trader Moon Gardener
Garden Ideas: Master Level Dragonflies Bulbs Garden Art Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Gardens in Buckets
yea Brad!!!!
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Mar 27, 2014 8:38 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Brad to the rescue!!! nodding
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Mar 28, 2014 8:19 AM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
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What she said!! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
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Mar 28, 2014 9:49 AM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Speaking of Dead irises, One of the last beds of mine to loose it's snow cover, one I started the summer of 02 (the hot summer) has lots of rot going on it appears. It was the last one to be rid of the snow, and was really mashed down and rabbit eaten I'm not sure what I can save yet. It's too muddy now to do anything with it right now. Might still save them, but most likely the bloom rhizomes are the ones gone. The rest of the beds seem OK.
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Mar 28, 2014 10:30 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Well I'm sorry to hear about the bed in trouble -- but I'm glad to hear the rest of them are probably OK. Frustrating, isn't it?
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Mar 28, 2014 1:40 PM CST
Name: Bonnie Sojourner
Harris Brake Lake, Arkansas (Zone 7a)
Magnolia zone
Region: United States of America Region: Arkansas Master Gardener: Arkansas Irises Plant and/or Seed Trader Moon Gardener
Garden Ideas: Master Level Dragonflies Bulbs Garden Art Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Gardens in Buckets
Tom. I hope your favorites were not planted in that bed.
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Mar 28, 2014 4:30 PM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
There are quite a few nice ones in that bed We'll have to see how they turn out. It rained about an inch and a half in the last two days, so it's really too muddy to go do much right now.
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Mar 29, 2014 12:33 AM CST
Name: Christy
Wyoming
Aww, sorry to hear that, Mary Ann. Crying I just poured over the list of goodies you sent me last Fall, but NO Swazi Princess or Arthouse.
Hugs- Christy
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Mar 29, 2014 7:28 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Thanks for checking Christy.
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Mar 29, 2014 8:46 AM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Adding to the not quite dead list, but not going to bloom this year is Joviality, and Lesley My Love, both had some nice increases on them going into fall of their second year, so I was expecting about 3 stalks on each one, and the main rhizome of each is rotted on top. There's some new little ones still going to make it I think, but no bloom Thumbs down Crying Confused Sad
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Mar 29, 2014 9:00 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Bummer. Sad
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Mar 29, 2014 12:09 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Tom as you know winter was horrible here, I thought I had the majority of it stopped but with all the rain and snow the past week I am finding some of the bulbs are still mushy after cleaning them out and getting all dirt away from them was hoping we could get lucky and have some warm dry weather but the forecast is calling for high's in the 40's next week and 3 days of rain Thumbs down I am going to have start treating with the 10% bleach solution and try to beat it that way if any one else has used something else that has worked to stop rot would Love to hear about what has worked.

Mary Ann as of now ..I must Have it.. looks fine so may be able to help you with that one too but everything looked really good just a couple months ago funny How fast things can change with Mother Nature will know more in the coming weeks as stuff starts to wake up and grow our ground is still freezing at night and the frost is still not out of the ground yet. It will be another late bloom season here.
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Mar 29, 2014 12:22 PM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Well, I just spent a while cleaning out the beds by the house. I found Luxuriant Lathario completely dead, and Here Comes the Night, Strawberry Shake,Teenybopper and Temporal Anomaly with rotted off main rhizomes. Not pretty. I was soooooo looking forward to seeing them bloom this year. I can't even go look at that one bed yet, as it's too muddy there, and right now I don't want to know. I don't know if it was totally the weather, or a combination of the weather and the rabbits eating off so many of the leaves so short. It's supposed to be nice tomorrow, so I'm going to clean out that new bed. It looked pretty good a couple of days ago, but like Brad said, with the two day rain we just had, things can change. Ugh, I feel sorry for you Brad, you have many more losses then I have. If you lived closer, I'd bring over a bottle and we could drown our sorrows. Crying Crying Crying
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