Re: HYB: REB: Research: Acceptance

In a message dated 12/6/2006 8:58:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
Autmirislvr@aol.com writes:

Why  doesn't everyone  want an iris garden full of rebloomers?  


I believe that some gardeners, especially those who experience four  seasons 
in their locale, and who are interested in various sorts  of plants, or in the 
making of gardens as such, prefer  to salute the changes through the 
gardening year. They enjoy  each sort of flower blooming in its own special time, with 
its typical  seasonal companions, be they blooms or birds, and when those 
flowers are  finished, these gardeners are, perhaps, content to see them  go, so 
that another other plant in its time and glory may assume  center stage. It 
could, I suggest, be said that celebrating the  unfolding of the seasons affirms 
the great cyclical continuum of  life.
 
Too, some people have an atavistic horror of things blooming out of season,  
for such has long been thought to be freakish, and a portent of  misfortune.
 
And then there is the paradigm of the modern hybrid rose. We are  invited to 
get on the bandwagon and support the swell idea that rebloom will do  for the 
iris what everbloom did for the modern rose, and I cringe to think of  this, 
but the fact is the modern hybrid rose is not an ideal garden plant by any  
means whatsoever, albeit she has a cheerleading team like no other  flower.  
 
As I understand it, there is some idea that that the general  public wants 
more more more while doing less less less, and there is, is I  suspect, some 
truth to this, although I don't know any experienced  gardeners who think like 
that. 
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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