Re:CULT: request for info re: winter strategies (and OT posts)

>I lost the message amongst all the OT posts, but someone suggested I
>wouldn't be able to grow reblooming irises here.
>
>Not true!  IMMORTALITY does great (with alfalfa supplement), and read my
>recent raves about HARVEST OF MEMORIES.  I wouldn't mind only being able
>to grow successfully a relatively small portion of TBs, but would like
>to be able to figure out before ordering which ones they are or are
>likely to be.
>
>Plus I have another reason for interest in rebloomers - last spring at
>Phil Williams garden in middle Tennessee, freeze damage was severe, but
>a large proportion of rebloomers had only lost the main flower stalk but
>had managed to bloom normally on the younger increases on the sides of
>the main rhizome, some with as many as four flower stalks.
>
>Linda Mann lmann@icx.net east Tennessee USA
>When OT posts are more abundant than iris posts, serious iris experts
>with limited time leave the list.  On digest mode, individual messages
>can't be deleted.  We have to decide if it's worth running off the
>people we need most.

 Dear Linda: Great to hear of the superior performance of the rebloomers
under stressful circumstances. I will be that minimal influence from I
mesopotamica would be found in many ,, even most of them!  Looks like it
may be a stressful spring ahead of us, if this warm weather continues. LOW
HO SILVER, I BLESS, amd BLESSED ASSURANCE are in bloom again now!!! One
cherry tree in bloom made the front page of the Durham paper yesterday!
Lloyd Z in Durham. NC
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