Re: First bloom...

Yes, I think you are right about considering rebloomers to extend the season.  
Instructor does not do well for me.  I should say did not do well, I lost i
a couple of years ago.Don't have the others.
To EVERYONE:
	Do you have the June 96 issue of National GArdening Mag?  Came today.
Has an article about RebloomingIris.  seems to be thorough.  There's an
extensive list of cultivars proported to rebloom.  The extraordinary vigor,
this article says, comes from the fast maturation of increases!  Interesting
point.  Since the rebloom has to be on the increases, to cultivate for that
is the trick.  What modifications to regular practises would you suggest,
Clarence.  How to make iris grow faster ... or in the case of these, provide
conditions so that they will do their normal thing?
	First, of course, is to choose a variety that is well known to
rebloom.  The first one (alphabetically) on the list is Champagne Elegance.
Now, here in WNY, it bloomed last year for our show, June 8 or so, along with
everything else.  I did a survey a couple of months ago, and this did not
appear on the list of cultivars that rebloom for us.  There were a couple of
stalks of it in the show.  What should we do differently?
	I get Immortality to rebloom very consistantly.  It is not particularly
early.  Sterling Innerest's plicatas (no reason within the plicata for this,
just happens to be plicatas of his that I have) have an extra ordinary long
bloom time.  His Sterling Prince has been the first one out and the last one
out.  But not a rebloomer.  That says that what I've been paying attention to
is bud count, not increases.
	So, this seems to be something to evaluate in specific cultivars.
But what do you say, Clarence?  Do you have this mag?  What do you say about
the ones suggested.  
	The author wrote from California.  She has some iris blooming all the
time......
	Carolyn Schaffner
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