TB: SUMMER SILK as a weather forecaster
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- Subject: TB: SUMMER SILK as a weather forecaster
- From: D* P*
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:51:41 -0500
I went out in the garden Sunday and knew immediately it would rain Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
How? you ask....because SUMMER SILK had bloomstalks that were about 2-3 days from opening. She opened this morning. It is currently pouring down rain here. I have grown SS (Gibson 71 - orange-buff glaciata) for over 10 years. Except for 1 year, it has rained on the day SS opens the first bloom, and in that year, it rained the next day.
I jest not. This iris smells rain or else conjurs it up with some magic spell as it blooms.
It is a fragile flower of delicate color, and I would really love to see it more frequently than once every 9+ years in some condition other than beat to death by the raindrops.
Dell
Plano Texas zone 7/8
Rain, rain you can stay
'til Friday, then away.
We have irises to tour.
Not much fun in a downpour.
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