RE: iris DIGEST V1 #200

Three years ago I made several crosses using Mariposa Skies as either
pod or pollen parent.  Of these, only one, Mariposa Skies X Pacific
Belle, has rebloomed.  Only two plants from this cross survived and both
have rebloomed this year.  Mariposa Skies is a rebloomer though it never
has done it for me.  Do any of you know if Pacific Belle has rebloom
genes and where they came from?

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9


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iris DIGEST         Friday, December 17 2004         Volume 01 : Number
200



In this issue:

        [iris] Holy Night
        [iris] Re: REB: Holy Night

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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:57:45 -0500
From: "jgcrump" <jgcrump@erols.com>
Subject: [iris] Holy Night

We were talking a while back about HOLY NIGHT and its rebloom here and
there
(or there and not here, as the case may be).  I mentioned a reblooming
seedling from HN x BEST BET, neither of which reblooms here.  Now I
find,
after a 19-above freeze, a fully-developed but not yet blooming stalk on
another seedling I've had for 8 years, which has never rebloomed before.
Sdlg
954T is HOLY NIGHT x 93RR2:(MARGARITA x MOMAUGUIN).  (Anner, you may
recall
93RR2 as the old-fashioned-looking seedling with the cream standards and
wine-red velvet falls that you noticed at the Fredericksburg show.)  I'm
not
aware of any rebloomers in the background of MARGARITA or MOMAUGUIN, so
I'd
say this is more evidence that HOLY NIGHT has some potent rebloom genes
that
cause its children to rebloom where it doesn't.  --  Griff

zone 7 in Virginia

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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:50:54 -0500
From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
Subject: [iris] Re: REB: Holy Night

Griff, HOLY NIGHT is listed in the 1998 rebloomer checklist as
reblooming in 16 states plus Ontario, zones 5 thru 10, including
Georgia, Louisiana, California, Iowa, Maryland, and Virginia.

With such a wide distribution of reports of rebloom (plus occasionally
reblooming even for me here in the vale), it may be more unusual that it
<doesn't> rebloom for you than that you get rebloom children from it.

Do you dig and reset every few years? I've had mine for years in the
same place, and it may be one of those irises that performs best when it
has been established a while.

It's one of those annoyingly late rebloomers here - always damaged by
fall freezes, including this year, when it stayed mild for such a long
time.

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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