CULT:freeze-stalk report

While driving down the road yesterday, I spotted some iris in bloom.   Really 
ratty freeze damaged blooms but they WERE blooms!  When we arrived  home, my 
granddaughter and I spotted one lone bloom at the back side of my  garden.  
 
Freeze was April 5-10th.  Accelerated season had bloom stalks showing  color 
on the very earliest seedlings.  Three different seedlings (TB)  opened in the 
house as their siblings froze outside.  
 
We walked through the entire garden but only saw stalks in one section-the  
older seedlings planted in 2004.  We counted less than 12 stalks and four  or 
five were all on one seedling.  The one bloom that was open looked  terrible.  
It wouldn't have been great in the best of circumstances, but  freeze damage 
was obvious.  No guarantee the blooms will have pollen, the  prized product 
here! 
 
A closer evaluation this morning revealed a few more stalks and information  
that is VERY important to evaluation of those seedlings I saw yesterday!  I  
found stalks on Breaking News, Cloud Berry & Angel Among Us.  They all  bloom 
late here.  Amity Estate has a stalk but hasn't bloomed in my  garden.  It's 
listed as medium.  
 
A couple of the seedlings bloom medium to late.  What I'm seeing are  the 
late stalks that would have emerged near the end of the season.  Good  to have 
cultivars that send up stalks over a period of time!  I hope to see  a few more 
stalks through the next week or so.  
 
I'm not seeing much rhizome damage (yet).  
 
 
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Betty W.  in South-central KY Zone 6 ---If you don't cross them, you can't 
plant them!  
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