Re: Reblooming MDBs
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- Subject: Re: Reblooming MDBs
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@cache.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:41:15 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Ryan!
You write (26 Aug 97):
> Irisers,
> Do any of you know of a few good reblooming MDBs? I am going to
> start crossing them.
The late Monty Byers (hybridizer of the 1997 Dykes medallist, THORNBIRD),
provided extensive notes about reblooming tendencies in his catalogs.
Here is a list of the MDBs that he noted as having strong rebloom
tendencies in his last catalog (1991):
DITTO (Hager, 82), FOOTLIGHTS (Hager, 80), GARDEN GNOME (P. Black, 88),
PERFUME (Byers, 89), and PUPPET BABY (Boswell, 82).
I grow DITTO and PUPPET BABY, and neither one has ever rebloomed for me,
but that doesn't signify anything, because hardly anything ever reblooms in
this climate.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@cache.net
