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Actually, Little Blackfoot is blooming here
today. IB Cheers didn't live long here either. I think it bloomed
once.
I don't actually think about winter being for the
SDB's, like for tulips, but the ones that survive our severe winters and spring
freeze/thaw cycles, are pretty hardy here.
My collection is mostly median and dwarf iris, a
few species, some spurias and about 150 TB's.
We grow what we can grow, but always testing the
limits of our zones, eh.
El
----- Original Message -----
From:
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Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:09
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: SDB in So.
California
Hi El,
I would be happy if they bloomed in the spring for
me. Essentially the only SDBs I every had bloom were Cheers and Little
Blackfoot. Cheers bloomed about once every 2 years. Little
Blackfoot and the others only bloomed once and never again. Of course,
no rebloom.
Don't you get real winters in Winnipeg, to encourage
SDBs to bloom for you?
Jan in Chatsworth
From: El Hutchison
<eleanore@mts.net>
To:
iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 5:38:14
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos]
Re: SDB in So. California
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All of these rebloom for me here, except for
Summer Recall.
El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Z3
----- Original Message -----
From: i*@aim.com
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:07
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: SDB in
So. California
The "whenever "
rebloomers are a line of rebloomers that I developed. They can
start to rebloom about a week after they finish spring bloom, and will
contiue periodically until frost.
These include Forever Blue,
Forever Violet, Blueberry Tart, Summer Recall, Autumn Jester , Wizzard
Of Hope .
One year I had a bloom every day on Forever Blue from early
May until very early Nov. They also rebloom in Canadian Ag zone 3, 2
or close to 2 in USA. This means places like Winnipeg Manitoba.
As
they don't seem to require vernalization (winter cold period)
they just may cope with marginal winter situations, and bloom, where others
don't.
Chuck Chapman
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jan Lauritzen <janicelauritzen@
yahoo.com>
To: iris-photos@
yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 3:57 pm
Subject: Re:
[iris-photos] Re: SDB in So. California
Hi
Chuck, I don't know which SDBs are considered 'whenever'
bloomers. We don't see many here at all. They grow fairly well
but do not bloom but once every few years.
No, I don't have the
fridge space.
Jan
From: "irischapman@ aim.com" <irischapman@
aim.com>
To:
iris-photos@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 4:35:06
AM
Subject: [iris-photos]
Re: SDB in So. California
Mike has this
combination on his TBs, so you got that.
As for SDB and MDB in
So. California, probably the only way to do it is grow in pots and put
in a fridge for a month. But who has enough fridge space for
that?
Some of the "Whenever " reblooming SDB may manage
to bloom and survive in your climate. More of these coming
in the future.
Have you tried any of the "Whenever" rebloomers
there?
Chuck Chapman
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jan Lauritzen <janicelauritzen@
yahoo.com>
To:
iris-photos@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 1:12 am
Subject:
Re: [iris-photos] SDB Seedling- Intense
Chuck, Magnificent! Now when can you get this flower combo
onto an IB, BB, or TB so it will grow here in So.Cal., the land without cold
enough winters?? Do you think that ice cubes would work?
Jan in
Chatsworth
From: "irischapman@ aim.com"
<irischapman@ aim.com>
To: iris-photos@ yahoogroups.
com
Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010
2:44:15 PM
Subject:
[iris-photos] SDB Seedling- Intense
A SDB
seedling that opened today.
Actually, it is more intense in person,
if you can believe. Ring is actually a bit darker, close to brown. So
much contrast camera can't capture it all.
I certaing wasn't
expecting this from this cross. Clever X a bitone
purple-rose luminata plicata seedling with red beard.
chuck
chapman
