Re: Re: REB: Holy Night

Linda and Willy  --  I can only guess that I am in a peculiar climate
pocket, or that it's something in my soil that deters HOLY NIGHT from
reblooming.  I have left it in the same place for as long as 4-5 years, and
I have actually replaced the native soil with commercial-grade topsoil in
the beds where it is presently situated.  Willy, I'm sorry to hear that you
have the same experience.  Still, I offer the fact that its children rebloom
as consolation and encouragement to anyone else who can't get it to put on
an autumn show.  Even as a once-bloomer, it's a lovely iris.

And, speaking of new things, I was just in the garden to cut stalks and
found BLAZING SUNRISE  nipped in the bud, literally, by the recent
reeze  --  the first time that it has sent up a rebloom stalk for me.  I
hadn't noticed it because it was right beside ISTANBUL, which was blooming
rigfht along until the freeze.  Rosalie --  does showing color before
freezing count as a rebloom?  (I'd guess it was 2 days short of opening.)
If so, count BLAZING SUNRISE for zone 7, please.  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:50 AM
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.
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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