Re: CULT: Early bloomers
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Early bloomers
- From: G* S*
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:52:16 -0800
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ranchiris@aol.com wrote:
>
> CULT: Early Bloomers
>
> Spring IS coming! Today in Tempe, AZ at the hotel we were staying at, I saw
> a beautiful dark purple Louisana Iris in bloom, with 5 more stalks coming -
> then got home here at the ranch near Tucson to find stalks emerging on Splash
> Dance (Shepard '87) an aribred that has TB growth habits & is usually my
> earliest bloomer. This iris was one of the very first group of irises I ever
> bought, and was the best grower of the bunch. (I killed about half of that
> first try, but was hooked!) So, I will probably always have a soft spot for
> it in my heart, and a spot for it in my garden. I wonder if I am the only
> one with a special fondness for those earliest bloomers, even if they aren't
> the most stellar of cultivars, otherwise.
Kathy,
You are not alone.
Before I got Mesmerizer, which generally starts blooming in January for
me,
my earliest bloom almost always came from the aptly named Harbinger. It
is
a POP (plain old purple), but is very tall and has a nice sweet grapey
scent.
It is the only one remaining from the first irises I bought, 20 years
ago.
It has a special place in my heart.
Gerry
--
g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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