RE: ANOMOLY?

Hi Everyone--

The pseudacorus are in full bloom -- beautiful and such a bright yellow
with brown veins.  Not very big blooms but so many it's like a giant's
bouquet. they are over 4' tall.  A bird, probably a plover, has built a
nest down in the stalks just bearly in view.  The mom flies up and
squawks everytime I go down to count blossoms.  Which is often.

Now the anomaly, if indeed it is such.  On my VSOIs (very superior old
irises), the pale yellow un-named TBs I keep talking about, there are a
profusion of bloomstalks and many buds.  About five stalks are now in
bloom. The bloomstalks range from 19 to 32" and the tallest has five
buds on one stalk.  The others that are as tall have four on each and
the smaller ones have three.  I've never seen five buds on an iris TB
bloomstalk, or any other for that matter.  these irises were the ones
that were divided yet bloomed profusely the very next spring (which was
last spring).  This year they are even better.  Are they really very
superior or are five buds to a stalk not unusual?

They have pale yellow standards with a slightly darker petal edge with
falls that are white tinged with the palest lemon with brown veins and
yellow beards.  And I know they were in the ground at that farmhouse
probably for 50 years.  the lady who sold the farm is very old now but I
think she planted them when she was quite young.  I must ask her. they
are the kind that when you dig them up and get tired of replanting
because here are so many of them, you just throw them over the fence
into the fields and they bloom the next year. 

The bed I planted last year is doing well with a very pale lavender up
and blooming but on 12 to 19" stalks.  the rest of them are doing well
and there is a bloomstalk on RITZ (SDB) but not yet on ROYAL KNIGHT,
supposedly a rebloomer.  it just kills me that I didn't bother to note
the names of any of the others I planted.  I just didn'tknow any better
then.
Rima  terra@catskill.net
upstate ny zone 4
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