Re: CULT: staggered bloom season?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: staggered bloom season?
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:58:11 EDT
In a message dated 4/18/00 7:08:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
lmann@mailhub.icx.net writes:
<< Have any of you noticed this staggered/delayed production of stalks in
different cultivars? It seems like a good trait not only to avoid total
loss to late freezes but to prolong bloom season.>>
I've got an inherited white TB probably from the 'twenties that might be one
of these. Phil Edinger has not yet identified it, but it blooms very early in
some situations, like with the first pallidas, and a good deal later in
others. I even wondered at one time if it could be I. florentiana, but the
stalks were clearly too thick. This year at mother's it bloomed shortish at
first with some crabbed blooms from frost, and now a couple of weeks later it
is blooming on three foot stalks. Last year it bloomed late in a friend's
garden and there it was purt nigh on to four feet tall. Very close to GUDRUN,
but my friend did a side to side comparison and said it was close, but not
identical. At the very least I'd say this one was very variable as to bloom
season and the later stalks are markedly taller than the earlier ones.
Anner in Virginia, USDA Z7
ChateauWhitehall@aol.com
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