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HYB: Blooming today, also
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  • Subject: HYB: Blooming today, also
  • From: B* W* <A*@aol.com>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
'Just Call Me' comes really close.   'Echo Location' was too good not to introduce.  'Star Gate' as it's blooming in the garden right now is hard to beat. I like the darker shades it's showing.  It has show bench branching and is loaded with buds and has the lower branch that also has an abundance of buds. 
<<saying of a reblooming seedling, "Just right!" >>
 
I'm just greedy and want them perfect in all colors, hues and patterns!  I'll continue to grow these near-misses because I like the quality of the rebloom.  I suspect they may help in creating those "better" rebloomers.  I made my first cross in 1986 and I was just saying--it isn't easy!  I walk hand and hand with frustration, but somehow something always pops up to encourage me!  Twenty five years! 
Heavy frost possible freeze.
 
The weather pattern bows down through the middle of the country so when a cold wave hits we seem to get it quicker than the outer rims or edges of the country.  I'm in zone 6 but have a strong wind so there are times I'll miss a frost when others in warmer areas get it.  I put the sprinkler out last night to try and protect several stalks on Again & Again, Over & Over and a few others.  It looks bad out there.  We're going to have a nice week so I'd like to save them. 
 
Betty W. 
KY Zone 6
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Griffin Crump <jgcrump@cox.net>
To: iris-photos <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 5:29 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Blooming today, also

 
Betty  --  Over the years, as we have posted messages, I've noticed that you seem to have earlier bloom than I do, but also earlier freeze.  It has interested me, because you're located 175 miles south of me.  It must be the difference in elevation that mostly accounts for it.  Part of it, too, could be my proximity to the tidal Potomac (a few hundred yards), with the water arguably holding heat later into the fall and holding the cold later into the spring.  As you may have noticed, some of my rebloomers successfully play tag with Jack Frost and come up blooming in December.
 
That being said, the law of averages will surely catch up one of these days, and you'll find yourself, with Goldilocks, saying of a reblooming seedling, "Just right!"  --  Griff 

From: A*@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:52 PM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Blooming today, also

Griff,
 
Guess that's not the correct term.  I need things that rebloom earlier in the fall, summer even.  But I don't know if I'm allowed to call them summer bloomers. 
 
Basically, I mean things that will rebloom early enough to miss the first freeze here in my zone 6 garden.  My average first freeze is Oct 15.  I need irises that start fall blooming approximately Sept 1 thru Oct 1 in order to enjoy fall bloom.  So far, I'm two weeks past the average date this year, with a light, unannounced frost today. 
 
<<by "cold hardy rebloom", Betty. >>
 
What can I call it? 

So many of the things that rebloom in zones 7 and above will not rebloom for me.  On very rare occasions I'll get a random stalk, maybe once in a lifetime.  I still talk about the fall bloom on 'My Valentine.'  Pity it won't even grow here.  I've little need for stalks that show up in late October just before a hard freeze.  They only bring frustration. 
 
2025-01Re_I.jpg
2025-01Re--5 stalks.  Started blooming early Sept. just finishing now.  More yellow on the shoulders than shows in this photo. 
 
2025-02Re_1.jpg
2025-02Re- Seven off season stalks.  1 in July and 6 in Oct. 
 
These two siblings rebloom well.  But they don't always have nice tall stalks, and they're both default colors.  Not much demand for either.  I've a couple of others that are half siblings (to these) and also bloom early, but neither are really finished products. 
 
If I get early rebloom, good height and branching the bloom usually suffers and if I get good blooms something else suffers.  Sigh! 
 
 
 


 
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Griffin Crump <j*@cox.net>
To: iris-photos <i*@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Blooming today

 
Not sure what you mean by "cold hardy rebloom", Betty.   --  Griff

From: A*@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 8:38 AM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Blooming today

 

<<Needs to be crossed with something that has flaring falls.>>
It's my experience that it's really difficult to get cold hardy rebloom while retaining all other desirable traits in the same plant!  Maybe it's just me!  ;-)
 
Betty W. 



-----Original Message-----
From: J. Griffin Crump <j*@cox.net>
To: iris-photos <i*@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 9:28 pm
Subject: [iris-photos] HYB: Blooming today

 
Here's one blooming today for the first time  --  and that's about all that can be said for it, except that it has a nice stalk.  Needs to be crossed with something that has flaring falls.   --  Griff
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