Re: HYB: REB: Research: Acceptance

I only grow and enjoy what you gifted people create but I wish every flower I grow was a continious bloomer. I would love to have an iris that would bloom like the roses do and you could have them as cut flowers about 9 months out of the year in my area. Iris are getting close with the continious bloomers but I don't think any of them have been bred to take the heat of summer. I do think that ever blooming iris are the future. I can only guess at what might be created with genetic engineering. I don't know if anyone is doing this yet but if there is money to be made someone will do it if it is possible.

ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:  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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