CS is pretty remarkable, Thomas. My only "cricket" to do an encore quit "singing" back in October.
--- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, thomas silvers <tesilvers@...> wrote:
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> Here are the most recent openings on 'Cricket Song'... the bloom on the far left is from a second fan (that is opening very near the ground), the other bloom is on the same stalk that I've recently been reporting (but this most recent flower only has 2 standards and 2 falls). There is also another stalk starting (downward pointing arrow) in a third fan, but it surely won't have time to open before harder frosts kill it.
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> I know it isn't much, but neither of its sisters is showing any signs of trying to rebloom this year. I think the extended dry period we've had here might be responsible for the lack of rebloom, so I'm happy that 'Cricket Song' had the determination to rebloom at least a little bit anyway.
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> Aside from showing (from the foliage condition) how dry it's been, this picture also gives some indication of just how small the clump still is. So to have a relatively normal Spring bloom (in May), then repeat with seven bloomstalks (in June and July)... and now to manage a few blooms open on two more stalks... I'm pretty happy with this little guy.
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