Re: reblooming procedures


Imagine following scenario:
The plant grow and bloom and start  to grow new blubs.
In the fall they send up their bloomstalks and is frozen down, so I dont
get a second bloom.
Isnt those fall balobas 'used' .. what is then going to bloom the next
year???? Does the plant have to
start with producing new rhizomes ??? Doesn't it get unsynchronized
with the seasons???
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Interesting question, Gunnar! I'm sure Clarence will give you a good answer,
but as I look at it, all the increases would have to bloom and freeze to 
wipe out the plant, and I suspect that is highly unlikely but entirely
possible! That wiping out condition is called "blooming out" and it does
happen in every garden.  There seems to be nothing that can be done about it.
It's possible that when the bloomstalk freezes, which certainly happens 
here in zone 5/6, the rhizome is unaffected, and might have increases
ready to grow in the spring.

Yes, beardless can thrive in partial shade!!  Kathy Guest's garden has high
shade nearly continuously and it's marvelous. Mine has sun in the morning,
shade in mid day, and sun in the PM.  Other folks might have differing 
experiences.  Maybe it's the density of the shade -- they certainly need
lots of LIGHT which might be available if the trees/shade is really from
leaves on the trees that are high, perhaps 30+ feet. 

You can always cut down the trees (kidding!!)

Thanks for the info on the pen pal project with our kids' classes!!

(That note is to keep folks on the LIST informed of the miriad of things 
that happen because we have this miracle of e-mail and cyber space!)

Talk with you later!

Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
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