Re: HYB: REB:questions/comments on cultivars

In a message dated 6/23/03 11:15:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lamegardener@msn.com writes:

> "rebloomer" may
> be open to different interpretatations.  For me, Innocent Star, Stingray,
> Floorshow, and Double Dribble (among others) can bloom intermittently at ANY
> time of year; you don't have to wait for August/September for rebloom.
> 

In my zone 6 public garden only two irises can be counted on to bloom before 
September.  One is Earl Hall's TB VIOLET RETURNS, not the best form but it 
does rebloom in July or August.  In both the public garden and in my Zone 5 home 
garden, our SDB SHOUT (02) repeat blooms in the summer.  I have trouble 
getting IMMORTALITY to bloom in spring or fall.  Others that rebloom in 
September/October at the zone 6 garden include PINK ATTRACTION, MATRIX and QUEEN DOROTHY 
from Earl Hall along with his SDB LITTLE SHOWOFF.  Lowell Baumunk's IB 
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S EVE sometimes reblooms as does TB HARVEST OF MEMORIES and SDB BABY 
BLESSED and our SDBs SILK AND VELVET, HARLEM NOCTURNE and PICASSO PRINT (all 
from the same cross).  We also get occasional repeat bloom on our MDBs PIXIE 
KISSES and MIDAS MITE.  Bob Hollingworth's Siberian CORONATION ANTHEM has some 
repeat bloom about a month after initial bloom.  That's about it--none of the 
California "rebloomers" rebloom here.

Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zones 5/6

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