Reblooming Iris Article: NGM
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- Subject: Reblooming Iris Article: NGM
- From: R*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:07:46 -0400
Someone may or may not have reported this already, but the NATIONAL GARDENING
MAGAZINE, May/June 1996 issue has an article on Reblooming Iris on page26.
Very nice picture of EARL OF ESSEX. Article is by Karen Dardick.
List of recommended Reblooming cultivars:
* Champagne Elegance (zones 5-10) champagne standards, muted pink falls.
* Clarence (zones 5-10) white wash over violet falls.
* Earl of Essex (zones 4-10) white edged with stitching of medium
blue-violet.
* Eternal Bliss (zones 5-10) very pale violet with light tangerine beards.
* Feed Back (zones 5-10) medium blue-violet with yellow beards.
* Harvest of Memories (zones 5-10) medium yellow.
* Immortality (zones 3-10) white.
* Matrix (zones 4-10) cream with cinammon stitching.
* Misty Twilight (zones 4-10) pale violet-blue with misty green in center of
falls around pale blue-violet beards.
* Pink Attraction (zones 5-10) ruffled pale pink.
* Silver Dividends (zones 6-10) ruffled silver-white.
* Summer Olympics (zones 4-10) yellow with large white blaze around orange
beards.
* Sunny Disposition (zones 5-10) light yellow.
* Violet Music (zones 5-10) violet.
* Witch of Endor (zones 5-10) dark burgundy bitone.
* Zurich (zones 5-10) ruffled white with yellow-tipped beards.
DWARF BEARDED (12")
* Baby Blessed (zones 5-10) yellow.
* Plum Wine (zones 5-10) plum-red.
Zone 10 refers to arid regions only. Irises won't rebloom in hot, humid
regions in zone 10 (Gulf Coast and Florida).
Robert Turley
LaBelle, FL
