RE: CULT: bloom report
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] CULT: bloom report
- From: T* C* L* A*
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:53:02 -0400
While an inidentified dark blue iris that was here when I bought the place
bloomed last week with the dwarf cresteds, and PLUM WINE and ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT opened their first flowers this weekend, my first "pedigreed" TB
to bloom opened this morning: two lovely ruffled blossoms on CRINOLINE, a
maroon-on-cream plicata that's one of my favorites,gleaming and bedewed in a
gentle rain that's been falling since midnight.
Lotsa others ready to go: GARDEN GRACE has about 10 stalks up; INNOCENT STAR
(that Mike Sutton sent me as an extra last summer --WOW that thing grows!)
has two; and EARL OF ESSEX has four up, despite having produced seven last
fall. They'll probably all bloom next week while I'm off at school in
Charleston, more's the pity.
Speaking of Charleston, I've never seen snapdragons so big and lush as
there: stalks up to my waist, and individual blooms as long as my thumb, in
not-particularly-well-tended public beds, no less. I understand it's because
they're fully-perennial down there, so what I saw were several-year-old
plants. Still, makes my little annual guys look even punier (sniff!). And
the jasmine or roses twining up every fence...
Lynn
In Lanham, MD, just outside the DC beltway (to the East), zone 6A or 7.
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