Hi Dan, my own Katherine is suffering, as it got cold again the instant they started flowering: https://flickr.com/photos/150325868@N06/… actually, I can't confirm your comment about deep planting - it may depend on more details: I've got one clump in a shallow bowl with commercial peat free soil, which is happily multiplying and flowering at most 3" deep. I had another clump in my open (heavy) ground, maybe a little bit deeper, and it disappeared over the course of 3-4 years. what type of soil are yours in? Martin Am 23.02.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Dan Fetty: > Here is the popular Katherine Hodgekin, blooming today. > > The iris was named for the wife of Elliot Hodgkin, an English > > bulb enthusiast. > > > Plant the bulbs DEEP. Shallow planting makes the bulbs > > "Rice out." They will break up into literally dozens of > > tiny bulblets about the size of a grain of wheat, > > that are difficult to collect and raise to blooming size. > > > Deep planting, 5-6 inches, and they will divide into > > larger blooming size daughter bulbs, as seen here. > > DAN FETTY > SHIPPING & RECEIVING > Office: +1-757-853-1703, 228 > Cell: +1-757-435-7457 > 1125 Azalea Garden Road, Norfolk, VA 23502 > "Save the Earth" > [1490800941162_image001.jpg] > tegraglobal.com > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Outlook-1490800941.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 4133 bytes > Desc: Outlook-1490800941.jpg > URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: KatherineHodgkin.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 4593071 bytes > Desc: KatherineHodgkin.jpg > URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… -- Martin ---------------------------------------------- Southern Germany Likely zone 7a _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
