Re: Re: HYB:REB:Research:Acceptance

hi Linda!
I had also a wonderful reaction from a friend to whom i had given LOADS of irises after the bloom in June last year. I hadn't told her anything about rebloomers, so she didn't expect anything.Among the lot were 2 REB, Sunny Disposition and Midnight Caller. 
They rebloomed.
She was extatic!
She even made her Xmas cards with beautiful pictures she took then.
This June, she couldn't wait to get hold of some more reloomers, hoping the miracle would happen again! 

I think she's hooked...for life!

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Loic TASQUIER
who, like Betty, could die (or kill)... for a repeat, cycle & everblooming / continuous / non-daylight dependant rebloomer! 
    zone 7 - Nederland
Email : tasquierloic@cs.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com> 
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB:REB:Research:Acceptance



Not necessarily.


But, I'd guess they will  always take a little extra work.
My nearly housebound aunt could barely walk & was unable to do any garden work at all for the last 5 or 6 yrs of her life and had no one doing any yard work for her other than mowing the grass. I planted a clump of IMMORTALITY next to the house, adjacent to the outside water spigot (just in case anybody used it for anything, so it might get a little extra water now and then). Piled some leaves around it, and when I visited her once a year, sprinkled a little osmocote around and scratched it into the surface soil. Swannanoa, outside Asheville, western NC.
She and her sister-in-law would call me every summer absolutely thrilled with the <beautiful> rebloom. Usually one short stalk with three or four blooms, nothing a passionate irisarian would get excited about, but they thought it was pretty amazing. And I still react that way myself. 

And yes, Anner, 6 inches of hardwood mulch is what I'd like to see, too!

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