Re: TB:Black Iris:
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:Black Iris:
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- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:42:16 -0700
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
Hello Lynn,
I don't think there is a true black TB rebloomer out yet. RAVENWOOD is an
older dark purple rebloomer. HOLY NIGHT is about the same color as TITAN'S
GLORY and has occasional fall rebloom. But a black rebloomer like BEFORE
THE STORM won't be out until next year.
I am really excited about the one we are introducing next year. As far as I
know it is the first "black" rebloomer. It's called BYE BYE BLACKBIRD grows
like a weed, is a mid season bloomer and an early fall/late summer
rebloomer. The standards are very black and the falls are pure black with a
1/4" purple band. A very interesting look. Wide with 8 to 10 buds. If I
can get my scanner set up again I will put it on the website.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Title, CDR Lynn A. <titlel@spawar.navy.mil>
To: 'iris-talk@onelist.com' <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:Black Iris:
>From: "Title, CDR Lynn A." <titlel@spawar.navy.mil>
>
>BEFORE THE STORM bloomed for me this year for the first time; I'd planted a
>shrimpy rhizome late last summer. It put up a single stalk with about five
>buds - which were lovely, a true glossy black, and held up well in a series
>of windstorms. But it's still on the puny side; two small fans and no
other
>increase. Is there a good black rebloomer I can replace it with (that
>section of the garden is all black blossoms, from hollyhock to violets,
>including a nearly-black rose and near-black daylilies. Gotta have at
least
>one iris there!)
>
>Lynn
>In DC area, where the heat has finally dropped into the low 90's...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Sutton [s*@lightspeed.net]
>Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:42 AM
>To: iris-talk@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:Black Iris:
>
>
>Hi Walter,
>You are getting pretty good at the "BTW, IMHO, FWIW" stuff! BEFORE THE
>STORM is a poor performer here also. The stalks are always stunted and
have
>a low bud count. If the buds ever open the flowers are usually half melted
>and very narrow. I guess it looks good in PA.
>TTYL
>MS in PVILLE CA ZN 8/9
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wmoores < wmoores@watervalley.net <w*@watervalley.net> >
>To: iris-talk@onelist.com <i*@onelist.com> <
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>Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 6:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:Black Iris:
>
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><?color><?param 0100,0100,0100>On 8 Jul 99, at 8:37, James Brooks wrote:
>
>
><?color><?param 7F00,0000,0000>>
>> I've found BEFORE THE STORM to be disappointing, difficult to
>> raise, increase, and with substandard bloom stalks and flowers. If I
>> wasn't taking upon myself the task of maintaining a Dykes display
>> garden, I'd drop it from the inventory in a heartbeat.
>>
>>
>>
>> BTW, IMHO FWIW, I agree with the esteemed Mr. Brooks almost 100%. His
>assessment of BTS is correct for the southern tier with similar growing
>conditions of H & H. My one per cent write<?/color> off involves seeing a
>fairly decent stalk of BTS at our spring show this year. What a shock! Just
>a fluke.
>
>Opening up a new can of worms, BOOGIE WOOGIE can be described as a BTS type
>and certainly is not a Dykes contender as it performs here. Rockytop
catalog
>has described BW as an IB, which is what it is here
>
>Now back to MMOB.
>
>Walter Moores
>Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
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