Re: DisappointingTBs - re bloomout

Pat,


>Can you indulge a Newbie and explain what *bloomed out*
>means?  I've seen it used regarding the TBs and it doesn't
>sound like the bloom burst forth with great fanfare and joy


Bloomout occurs when a rhizome blooms, but doesn't make new plant fans to
continue the propagation of the plant.  Since rhizomes only bloom once, the
plant increase is essential or the plant is finished.  I get sort of edgy on
seeing one bloom without 3-4 increases showing.  When plants tend to bloom
more than they increase, they never make very large clumps and there are
never many fans as a safety for a disaster.  HELLO DARKNESS, e.g., bloomed
every year for me, but the most increase I ever had it produce from a
rhizome was two new fans.  Usually it only gave one and sometimes none.
Those fans bloomed quite readily the following season and finally the lack
of new fans has caught up with it and I have no new fans showing on a
rhizome that has bloomed.  So likely the plant has bloomed out.  It may
possibly put out a fan or two this fall, but I doubt it.  On plants that
have bloomed out here, I haven't noticed anything wrong with blooms or
stalks.  Some, in fact, have been quite spectacular in displaying their swan
song (remembering those final two stalks on the last two fans of MOUNTAIN
MAJESTY).

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA



 

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