Re: HYB: CULT: Very late bloomers and a tough Louisiana

Hi, Vince --  Good to hear from you  --  No, I don't think I'll try 
any Canadian capers.  My TBs, spurias and lone Louisiana were bloomed 
out before the C&P/FSK show, including the very lates.  I'm just in a 
zone 6/7 climate pocket down here near Mount Vernon.  Don Spoon's 
gardens used to be just across the river from me and he had the same 
problem of bloomout before the show.  He has solved it by moving to 
the mountains of northwestern Virginia and establishing Winterberry 
Gardens, but I have too many roots of other kinds to leave this area 
now.

For those of you who may be interested:  A friend gave me a couple of 
Louisianas which were planted near a seep under some willows.  I have 
no constantly wet spot in my yard, so took them to the seedling 
patch, where I have a corner that stays wet too long to grow beardeds 
there.  I had ditched that corner to drain it, and I planted the 
Louisianas on the side of the dirt pile just where the ditch exited 
the garden, in full sun.  We had a drought this spring and even the 
wet corner dried up.  One died, but the other, a red, bloomed 
beautifully and is increasing nicely. I'm tempted to let the ditch 
silt up.

Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac in Virginia. jgcrump@erols.com  


--- In iris-talk@y..., vince lewonski <vincelewonski@y...> wrote:
> 
> --- jgcrump@e... wrote:
> > Linda -- I think you and Judy Eckhoff of Kansas have
> > helped me figure >    V. sez:
>    They may be too late for TB season shows, but any chance
> they could last until the beardless show? I have brought
> the TBs RECHERCHE and SILVER FIZZ to what were supposed to
> be JI shows, just to stir things up. Granted, they were on
> the last bloom, and looked sad, but it adds some variety to
> the bench, and lets people know that such late varieties
> exist.
>    I was at Bruce Hornstein's garden today, a day after the
> FSK/C&P beardless show (MD/VA), and he still had one
> Siberian (PINK HAZE) and several spurias still out. I was
> disappointed to learn that he hadn't brought them to the
> show. Would've been interesting.
>    Another solution may be to send them way south, where
> the season gets compressed. At the Dallas convention, it
> was the tail end of the IB season, yet most LAs were in
> bloom. These would be several weeks apart up north.
>    Another solution is to personally take these late stalks
> from your garden to a show in Canada... no, I won't pick up
> the tab... ;=)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Vince Lewonski
> vincelewonski@y...
> Secane, Pennsylvania, USA Zone 6b
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