CULT: TB: Art Deco
- Subject: CULT: TB: Art Deco
- From: L* M*
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:58:01 -0400
ART DECO has a bloomstalk on an increase formed over the winter. The
central fan looks like it was damaged and isn't going to bloom.
ART DECO is one of the handful of irises ordered from Schreiners' that
got in the ground after first frosts last fall. This piece of row was
covered with a single layer, not very well anchored, piece of polyester
plant bed cover (lighter weight but similar to Reemay) from the time
they were planted until night time temperatures were no longer dropping
into the mid to low 20s. They were uncovered for the warm soggy two
weeks before the much discussed killer freeze (which did a lot more
damage farther south and west than here), covered for the freezes, and
finally uncovered again permanently (I hope) when it warmed again.
At Phil Williams' Rockytop Gardens, TN, in a zone colder and quite a few
miles west of here, in years past, I've noticed several cultivars with
damaged terminals but normal looking, tho slightly later bloom stalks on
increases.
Is this common? For those of you who've noticed this kind of
'behavior', have you noticed anything the cultivars had in common?
Ancestors, source, age, anything? Or does this kind of trait lead to
bloomout?
Don't I wish I could have a whole garden full of that kind of behavior!
Death by bloomout sounds so much more enjoyable than the usual death by
freeze, rot, hail, drought, wildlife, livestock, etc etc...
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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