Re: Re: HYB: REB: Immortality etc

In a message dated 6/26/2003 10:02:00 AM Central Standard Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

> Hard to
> impossible to tell whether or not the children might or might not
> rebloom eventually.
> 

Bridge In Time and Returning Chameleon, both pretty good rebloomers, came 
from the first season I had bloom on Immortality. Monty sent the rhizome in the 
fall of 87 and in the spring of 88 it put up 5 stalks. Four of those stalks 
bore seed pods and it set pods on Butterscotch Bronze, Christmas Rubies, 
Glistening Icicle, Corn Harvest, Pink Sleigh, and Sorority Sister!  

BIT came from Glistening Icicle x Immortality and RC came from Pink Sleigh x 
Immortality, both from Immortality pollen. The Corn Harvest cross gave me 3 
rebloomers out of 34 seed. Two were just like Corn Harvest, only worse. One was 
palest yellow over palest lavender and was tall and well branched. Had a 15 
foot row at one time with MANY fall stalks. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was 
pretty enough to introduce.  Wish I'd kept it.

In the next year or two I crossed it onto Paradise which gave me some of the 
tallest seedlings, some nearing 4 foot tall, all either pale yellow or pale 
yellow bitones. Some of my prettiest plants but no rebloom. Over the course of 3 
or 4 years I made at least 25-30 crosses with Immortality.  I've still got a 
small clump of Orbiter x Immortality, but it's not that great--most of the 
time, and has not rebloomed.  Immortality x Beau Zam produced a rebloomer that 
was nice and tall and very well branched. Ah, a couple of rebloomers, yellow 
amoenas, from Immortality X Champagne Elegance. More that got away.  AND Precious 
Moments X Immortality gave 3 rebloomers, one a gorgeous little thing but it 
wouldn't bloom out of the fans! 

Linda, most of these were left at Alvaton. Wishing you lots of fun.  

Betty W. from South-central KY zone 6

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