Re: REB: HIST:'Lent A. Williamson' Rebloom?

I asked this same question on the HIPS forum. I had a rebloom on 3 of 12 clumps. Actually the freeze got the last one. I think I have read somewhere that it can rebloom. I am in NE  Mississippi in zone 7. This is the first fall I have had LAM and it does increase like a rebloomer. Lee Mincy

ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:  Greetings.

Do we have any reports of 'Lent A. Williamson' ( B.Williamson, 1918) 
reblooming? I've been watching a small clump of something historic in the 
neighborhood for several years after it rebloomed in December one year. I have seen it 
in bloom in spring several times and my impression has always been that this 
was the aforementioned cultivar, which is not an obscure one. Anyway, it is 
not reblooming now, nothing is, including that very stately candelabra 
branched yellow unknown I mentioned the other day, which collapsed with the 20 
degree night, but it bloomed in early December at least once. I don't know what it 
is. I went to Lowe's page and the most likely candidate is 'Autumn King,' 
but that really does not look right, especially around the falls. Nor is Lent 
mentioned in Clarences article on remontant historics. The situs of this 
rebloom has been against the southfacing wall of a brick apartment house built 
circa 1925, urban environment. There has been just the one clump of rhizomes. 
Less sun than the heavy blooming historic one I found some years ago down at 
the local university, one we believe to be a Vilmorin. 

So, do we know anything about Lent? In better times I'd ask my dear friend 
Rosalie, but that, alas, is not as easy as it once was. I will copy Lowe on 
this note as he may also have some information, or cogent speculation. 

I apologize if this is the sort of thing that everyone knows but me. Nothing 
much reblooms in my garden--sun patterns--so that I am sort of on the 
sidelines observing these issues.

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USDA Zone 7

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