Re: MED: MDB Bloom Season

From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)

>From: "Sterling Okase" <sterling_o@hotmail.com>
>
>>From: Patsiris@aol.com
>>
>>.....unless the newer MDBs have changed from when I grew them, they
>>would only bloom here about one year in ten because of our not cold
>>enough winters.  I finally threw all of mine away
>>and got SDBs instead.
>>
>>Pat in Dallas
>
>Hi Pat,
>I have heard this of the MDBs. Personally, I grow quite a number of
>MDBs and have no trouble with them. Must be that I have just enough
>cold to suit them. How long has it been since you've tried to grow
>them? It seems to me that if you can grow SDBs, you should be able to
>grow the MDBs as well since a lot of them these days come from SDB
>breeding. Also, now they have two or three buds per stem. Ones that
>are exceptional in my book (that would be for vigor, health and looks)
>are PUPPET BABY, DAISY FRESH, MAYA MIST, TOOTH FAIRY, GRAPELET, JOLLY
>JOEY, HEY THERE, GARDEN GNOME, BLUE WIND, CINNAMON APPLES and
>SLEEPYTIME.
>
>The only thing I don't like about the MDBs is that with such a small
>plant, they sometimes get lost in the garden.
>
>Iris Maniac,
>Sterling (not Innerst)
>Seattle, WA. Zone 8
>AIS, KCIS, HIPS and MIS
>And Friday Night Chat-o-phile
>sterling_o@hotmail.com
Dear Sterling: The MDB's are very hard to grow here. They have a ;pt of
I.pumila in them, and this climate is too hot for them. I have three that
continue to hang on, but they are not happy and no bloom on them this year.
Lots of SDB's, but I think on the whole these grow better farther north.
Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC



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