RE: TB Edith Wolford

Sounds like another iris that needs a winter freeze to trigger good
growth/bloom.  Just about everyone I know in southern California is
disgusted with its performance, though I heard it did well for someone in
the "high desert" area.  Their winters are cooler.  We all get stubby fans,
infrequent (if any) bloom, and lucky-to-break-even increase.  Great color,
but not if you never get to see it.  A Dykes medal winner should be more
dependable.  Amusing though, to see all the good-growing dull yellow /
lavender bicolors subsequently introduced by people who just didn't
understand that Edith's color was what made her so attractive, and dull
yellow / lavender just doesn't do it.

John Reeds
jreeds@microsensors.com

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> From: 	lilylvr[SMTP:lilylvr@kansas.net]
> Reply To: 	iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: 	Friday, April 27, 2001 11:43 PM
> To: 	iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: 	Re: [iris-talk] TB Edith Wolford
> 
> I have Edith Wolford in a very dappled shade location. The Rhizomes are
> exposed to open air. The soil is on the tough side and needs amendments to
> lighten it up. It has divided admirably there and looks like it will have
> 3 or 4 bloomstalks this year. I was going to move part of it  but after
> what I have read I may just leave it as long as it does not crowd itself.
> It only gets sun until 10 or 11 am. It also gets reflected light off the
> windshield of my car. I have had other iris I had to move into the sun to
> make happy but this is not one of them. I do use supersulfate once in the
> spring and again in the fall. Maybe this will help. I hope so. My flowers
> on this plant are just luminous with beautiful branching. It tolerated 111
> degrees for a week last summer and 30 below with no cover last December.
> Maybe it can not tolerate full sun.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Kitty & Bruce Loberg 
>   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 7:36 AM
>   Subject: [iris-talk] TB Edith Wolford
> 
> 
>   Sandra,
>        Edith Wolford, in my warmer Calif. climate doesn't grow well or
>   increase much.   Same with Beverly Sills.   I had just about given up on
>   Edith.  Then two years ago I put it in a new bed with LOTS of compost...
>   iris food... and it's doing quite nicely.   I don't know if it likes to
> be a
>   heavy feeder or not... anyone else have an experience of saving iris by
>   planting in heavy compost with those varieties which don't seem to
> thrive?
>   Kitty Loberg, Northern Calif.
> 
>   >I tried Edith Wolford, too.  She didn't make the winter.  I am on my
> third
>   and
>   >hopefully final time for Honky Tonk Blues ( it bloomed for me once and
> I
>   loved
>   >it),
> 
>   > >.  So far, 18 of them look like they've survived this
>   > > prolonged winter, including Edith Wolford (her 3rd & LAST CHANCE
> HERE!).
>   >
> 
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