Re: HYB: Research: Building a better rebloomer

In a message dated 12/6/2006 12:23:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
Autmirislvr@aol.com writes:

I'm just taking advantage of a little personal down time to ask a bunch  of  
questions and stir the pot . . . more or less!   <vbg> 
 
Well, you got an answer from me, reporting comments on  rebloomers heard from 
a variety of sources, both within AIS and  without over the years, with an 
observation of my own on the advisability  of emulating the modern hybrid rose. 
 
You have asked why some would not want rebloomers several times  before, I 
think, in one form or another, but one did not want to get  into the subject 
while Mrs.Figge was with us else one upset her.
 
There have been two very late reblooms sighted here, both probably  Lloyd's 
stuff, although one cannot be sure. About a mile west, a shortish  white with 
flaring falls has been blooming in someone's sunny shrub border. I  expect 
there are other bulbs there since the layout suggests it. I expect  this is a 
comparatively newly set 'Immortality."  Only the one  stalk, blooming the day 
after Thanksgiving with normal branching. More  accessible to me was a clump of 
something tall and medium yellow blooming in  someone's front garden--a really 
exuberant and merry mess, spent perennials,  drifted leaves, seeding marigolds, 
that sort of scene. This was a clump  perhaps eighteeen inches 
across--foliage very lax and ratty--with four stalks  up, bottoms as thick as a broom handle 
and fine candelabra branching. Four  blooms open on one, albeit standards 
slightly gaping, and more to come. Full  bloom last week. I'm guessing 'Harvest 
of Memories", but can't tell since I  have not seen that one for some time. 
Growing on the south side of the street  in proximity to a lot of masonry. 
 
For what it may be worth...
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA USDA Zone 7--Urban

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