Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
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  • Subject: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
  • From: &* t* <t*@cs.com>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:09:04 +0100
Hello Thomas,

I have quite a lot of 'supposed to rebloom irises' here... (594 actually!)
But not even 10% of them rebloom!
i guess i dig them up too often for them to settle long enough and rebloom...


Here are the most reliable  ones:
    name kind breeder
      I'll Be back IB Aitken
      Angel Heart IB Aitken
      Low Ho Silver IB Byers
      Ever Cool IB Aitken
      Concoction IB Byers
      Champagne Encore IB Aitken
      Claire Doodle MTB Nearpass
      Many Mahalos MTB Aitken
      What again SDB Ensminger
      Blueberry Tart SDB Chapman
      Cry Baby SDB Ritchie
      Forever Blue SDB Chapman
      Autumn Jester SDB Chapman
      Pushing The Envelope SDB/MTB G.Sutton
      Immortality TB Rurbrigg
      Northward Ho TB Zurbrigg
      Lake Reprise TB Moores
      Over & Over TB Innerst
      Cantina TB Byers
      Starship TB Byers
      Midnight Caller TB Byers


with a special 'bravo' to Pushing the Envelope, Forever Blue and Autumn Jetter
for multiple rebloom!

Loic



 ----- Original Message -----
  From: thomas silvers
  To: iris-talk
  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:48 PM
  Subject: [iris] REB: Best rebloom performers?


  My sister tried growing a dozen or so reblooming irises for me a few years
back. She's much better about tending to flowerbeds (weeding, watering, etc.)
than I am. She did get a few to bloom in the fall, but nothing that really
stood out in my mind.
  So... my question to the rebloom experienced folks, if you had to rank
irises for best rebloom performance [without any consideration to flower form
or color] what would be a the top of your list?

  Something with reliable, generous rebloom, maybe even without a whole lot of
extra attention given to it.

  Since my goal would be to use it for hybridizing, I guess some degree of
fertility would be a requirement too. I'd be most interested in TB's but I'd
still like to know of other classes.

  From my very limited experience, my small list would look something like...

  1) 'Golden Child' (SDB) - rebloomed several times for me, in spite of
deplorable conditions of neglect

  2) my two new MTB seedlings

  3) I think 'Rosalie Figge' was one I remember doing fairly well at my
sister's place

  What would your list look like?

  Thanks, Tom (zone 6/7 Maryland)

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