RE: Re: REB: CULT: questions-IMMORTALITY

I think Immortality is just fussy and needs to settle in.  I think it took
three years before we got spring bloom and then rebloom the following year.
But once it starts reblooming, it just keeps going.  We had a rebloom stalk
in November one year -- we had a long fall with only light frosts.

She was divided last year and no bloom stalks this spring.  I hope that she
starts to do her thing next year.  This is one that we leave for a long time
before dividing.

Maureen
Ottawa, Ontario (zone 4 -- melting in the heat wave)



-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann [l*@volfirst.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:24 AM
To: iris- talk
Subject: [iris] Re: REB: CULT: questions-IMMORTALITY


IMMORTALITY is such an odd duck.  I had to try several different years
to get her established here, but once she settled in, she's grown
exceptionally well, super healthy, lots of increase, sets pods as well
as any here.

Getting her to bloom is another story - one year she bloomed 5 different
times, May till hard freeze in November.  Some years, she does well to
bloom once, and is always stingy with stalks. She is growing 5 different
places in the garden, and I keep putting her in more different spots
trying to find something she likes.  Thinning clumps every year, NOT
digging and dividing, seems to encourage bloom, at least in the most
vigorous clump.

Extra fertilizer & water doesn't seem to affect her one way or the
other.  This year, I'm trying mulch, since the one clump that seems to
bloom the most reliably is buried under a dense 'mulch' of Sedum.

Sure wish I knew what she wants!

==Does she bloom reliably for any of you?  If so, what do you do?  Or is
this another climate thing, & nothing I can do about it?

<I have trouble
                   getting IMMORTALITY to bloom in spring or fall.
Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zones 5/6>

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