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  • From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Lilies
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:12:13 -0600

Hey Bill, all may yet be well.  I had Western Sand Cherry and Rhododendrons blooming last fall and many young customers reporting similar events--and patting themselves on the back as good gardeners who could inspire a plant to bloom out of season (!).  It's been my experience that a healthy plant-much like a healthy human--can weather all sorts of confusion.  We may lose a season of flowers but seldom the entire plant (there's a metaphorical lesson in there somewhere).   I was thinking about the lilies a bit more today and like other members of the liliy family-the alliums-I  bet that the crop will be fine although the foliage may be tip burned....foliage damage shouldn't affect the market price of lilies.  I checked my garlic this afternoon which is under a layer of straw mulch, and saw no signs of recent growth.

I'm a bit confused about the mild weather myself....I don't know whether to curse it for its effect on my plant stock or bless it allowing me to wear one layer of outdoor clothes.

Shawnee


From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Lilies
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:49:57 -0600

I noticed a number of woody species flowering last Fall in northern Illinois, including Rhododendrons. The extreme drought led to woody's going dormant mid-summer. When rainfall returned they broke out of dormancy and started flowering. Makes me wonder what we'll have this Spring, bsides some dead woody's.
 
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html

I am having the same problem in Northern Illinois. (There is a magnolia tree blooming down the street) With daylight hours increasing and mild temperatures, many species are confused, but lilies are very hardy and can handle frequent extreme temperature fluctuations. 

-Shawnee, coping with a nursery full of confused trees, shrubs and perennials 


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