Re: TB: QUEEN DOROTHY
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] TB: QUEEN DOROTHY
- From: "Sandra Barss" b*@hotmail.com
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:54:56 -0600
Hi Laurie
You look like you get the same weather patterns as we do in Manitoba.
We have had our coldest October since sometime in the 1800's as well.
Sandra
>From: laurief <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
>Reply-To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
>To: "iris-photos" <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [iris-photos] TB: QUEEN DOROTHY
>Date: Sat, 2 Nov 02 07:38:25 -0600
>
>QUEEN DOROTHY bloomed for me for the first time this spring since
>planting a couple years ago. She tried to rebloom this fall, too, and
>probably would have made it if we hadn't had the third coldest Oct in MN
>history. Unfortunately, her rebloom stalks were frozen out. :-(
>
>Spring bloom provided an interesting variation in flowers on the two
>stalks she produced. As you will see, some blooms were only delicately
>stitched and colored, while others displayed much stronger plicata
>markings. These variable patterns appeared on flowers on the same stalk.
>
>QUEEN DOROTHY (E. Hall, 1984) TB, 29 1/2", E-M & RE (rebloom reported in
>AL, AR, CA, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, ND, NE,
>NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, Ont., Holland, zones
>4-9). S. white with 1/2" mid-violet edge; F. white with 3/8" mid-violet
>edge; yellow beard tipped white; lightly ruffled; slight sweet fragrance
>
>
>-----------------
>laurief@paulbunyan.net
>http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
>USDA zone 3b, AHS zone 4 - northern MN
>clay soil
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