Re: CULT: Winter harrumphs

Hi all,
    Might just be the cold...this is one of our more-like-zone-7-in-zone 8 
winters...
but it jogged me to do some crabby winter observations whilst considering 
those that might leave the garden this year...for whatever it's worth:
How ironic that I love sky blues and I'm having a heckuva time getting some 
of the supposedly nicer ones to do anything here...VANDA SONG and MARIAH to 
be specific.    Both gifts so I can't complain about losing an investment but 
VS squeezed out one small flower year before last then nothing...only one 
increase too.
How I would've loved to see MERIT bloom, but nada for the third year.   This 
is especially dissapointing because I did feed it,  treated it to extra water 
when needed and was eyeing it to cross with a Jim Loveland MTB seedling he 
gave me a few years back.   But no bloom from either.    Shame was that I 
mentioned the cross to Jim and he thought it'd be a good one.    I may just 
for auld lange syne still give those two ONE MORE YEAR.    
     TWO of the light blue standards and blue plic falls pattern: HARMONICS,  
and ACOMA  are also no-shows for bloom going on 3 years...although ACOMA has 
at least increased nicely.    
     To be more cheery,  copious increases on new ones before this real cold 
hit:
PRO NEWS, sporting 4 increases on either side of a new rhizome...also NEW 
DISCOVERY doing very well, after realllly late arrival from ASI....and BOLD 
STATEMENT ( I DANCED when I got this one as an extra from Superstition)
coming in third for the most increases on a new one.    I have found BTW, 
that these numerous increases on a new arrival DOES indeed bode well for 
them, at least here in hot and humid/sandy poor soil SC.     Although I know 
some feel that the increases were set already wherever they came from, I also 
have had ones that already had increases just plotz when they got here.   
Anyway, the new sprinkler system should help eliminate the dryness situation 
this year...maybe I'm not as cranky as I think I am...think I'll peruse some 
catalogs...

Janet Natale
zone 8 of Sc,  high only at 45 today

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