{Disarmed} RE: Approaching "bloomout"
- Subject: {Disarmed} RE: [iris-photos] Approaching "bloomout"
- From: "FRANCELLE EDWARDS" f*@worldnet.att.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:25:21 -0700
- Importance: Normal
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A few
years ago one of my seedlings put up its first stalk from its only fan. It was a black iris that I thought was
unusually beautiful. I cut it and
put in on my table where all who saw it sighed over its first and last bloom. Then I forgot about it until fall; when I
was digging the bed, I saw that what looked like the dead rhizome was putting
up two little shoots. I cared for
them tenderly, and now I have four big healthy clumps of it. I’m lining it out again this fall,
and next year I may register it. They
won’t all come back like that no matter what you do them. Good luck! Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9 -----Original Message----- In a
message dated 6/13/2006 12:18:48 A.M. Central Standard Time, jgcrump@cox.net
writes:
The
nutritional pathways in the bloom stalk appears to be one way? It is
designed to supply nutrition for the blooms and supporting foliage, pod when
produced. It's doubtful it collects nutrients for storage in the
rhizome?? Any
foliage or fans at the base of the stalk might still be collecting as
it is their job. If the rhizome has no foliage at the base of the
stalk it is probably bald?? But only time will tell. Some
cultivars traditionally wait until really late in the summer to send up
new increase and foliage. ________________________________________________________
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