Re: Bloom reliability

Don't give up yet. I was told Edith Wolford may not do well here and it has done better than many. 
Wendy Zone 5
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Greaves 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 12:49 AM
  Subject: [iris-talk] Bloom reliability


  I was visiting with another iris lover a couple days ago and
  mentioned that I had nice bloom stalks on my Edith Wolford
  and Immortality.  He casually said that I must have just
  purchased them.  I told him that I'd bought them from
  Schreiner's last year but how did he know?  He said that
  those don't bloom well in the Dallas, TX area and that the
  blooms had been set in the rhizomes last year in Oregon.  He
  went on to say that the blooms for next year are set this
  year about six weeks after the current bloom ends.

  That was very interesting and disappointing for me as I had
  planned on dividing the clumps and growing more new plants
  from them but will now wait another year and see if they
  will bloom here or not next year.  If no blooms next year, I
  guess I dig them up and either toss them or give them to
  someone who lives where they will bloom (any takers?).  Is
  there some kind of rule of thumb on determining which
  varieties will bloom in different climates?  I've ordered
  another 50 or so varieties already this year and hate to
  throw my money away in a crap shoot.

  Tom, near Dallas, TX zone 7

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