Fw: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Fw: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
  • From: t* s* <t*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:39:59 -0800 (PST)
Oops, sorry, I sent to Iris-Photos instead of Iris-Talk.
Here's what I'd sent below, and thanks to Colleen also for the tip on 'Double Shot'. Also, I see now where 'Many Mahalos' is registered as an IB. Is it pod fertile for you Loic?
Thanks for your suggestions, Tom

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, thomas silvers <tesilvers@yahoo.com> wrote:


> Subject: Re: Re: REB: Best rebloom performers?
> To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 1:53 PM
> Thanks for the suggestions Loic and
> Linda.
> 
> Less than 10% of "supposed to rebloom" do for you!!??!!
> Can't say that I'm happy to hear that Loic - it's a sad
> disppointment -
> but I am glad to know that it might not just be my
> neglectful 
> growing conditions to blame for my sad history of rebloom.
> I've seen the pictures of your gardens and they look 
> beautiful and well-cared for. 
> 
> I'm glad that you mentioned 'Claire Doodle' and 'Many
> Mahalos' because 
> I hadn't been thinking of tetraploid MTB's.
> 
> Linda, I guess I'm going to have to consider giving
> 'Immortality' 
> another try. It only bloomed either Spring or Fall but
> never both 
> for me, while I had it. 'Harvest of Memeories' sounds like
> a winner 
> too. Have you ever tried some of the TB's from Loic's list
> (like 'Northward Ho', 'Over and Over', 'Lake Reprise' or
> 'Cantina') 
> there in the "vale"?
> 
> My sister lived about a half hour away from me at the time
> and was 
> making new flowerbeds and didn't really have much to put in
> them. 
> So seeing a perfect opportunity present itself... I'd buy a
> bunch 
> of reputed rebloomers and she'd grow them to see if they'd
> do well. 
> Like I said, she took much better care of things than I
> typically 
> do, so she had a quite a few that seemed to grow alright,
> but still 
> not much rebloom. She nows lives about a half an hour away
> but in a 
> different area, and has mature trees (woodland) blocking
> almost all 
> direct sun, so the bearded irises are really not doing too
> well for 
> her.
> I think I am succeeding in converting her from a bearded
> only kind 
> of gal - she's starting to appreciate the crested roof
> irises (tectorum)
>  that I snuck into her shady flowerbeds one fall when she
> was 
> recovering from a surgery. 
> Now if I can only get her to start daubing ;0)

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