Re: CULT: Sour grapes
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Sour grapes
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 20:47:56 -0700 (MST)
>At 19:51 2/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi Rita,
>>> We really enjoyed your iris bloom posting this past winter to us.
>>Doesn't the idea of rebloomers sound appealing?
>>Sure does, but I have quite a few and they aint doin' nuthin'.
>>> Enjoy your roses- mine haven't got started yet- but there are a few
>>buds. My goal- to have something in bloom year round.
>>I've only got a few miniature roses and banksia roses. I love the
>>flowers, but don't like slicing up my fingers when I weed.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jan Clark
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>I've actually managed to engineer a garden that flowers all year round (and
>I don't mean I am constantly updating annuals either). We go through
>Winter and Spring with the bulbs and flowering trees, then into the roses,
>then cannas and dahlias and then a solid mass of chrysanthemums. then we
>start to get back to the bulbs again. Thats just mentioning the "majority"
>plants.... there's always heaps of other bits and pieces putting their
>heads up here and there.
>
>Paul T. Australia.
Lloyd Z adds: Ben Hager alwasy asserts that water is the answer to rebloom.
If his CA location is at all like yours, his advice would be, give the
rebloomers more water. I find it hard to get rebloom until October here
because the summer is so hot at night as well as day. In CA in Ben's garden
the nights were quite cool in Oct. and I believe are cooler then here in
the high summer.
