Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
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- Subject: Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom
- From: S* H* <h*@serc.si.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:41:04 -0600 (MDT)
At 19:10 6/10/97 -0600, you wrote:
>John I Jones wrote:
>>
>> Mark, Maureen wrote:
>> >
>> > Point of clarification -- there are some varieties that have multiple bloom
>> > stalks on the same rhizome e.g., Celebration Song. . .
>>
>> Hmmmm, That is a new one on me. There was a discussion a couple of
>> months ago about multiple stalks from the same rhizome, and I thought
>> that the general wisdom was that it only occurred due to some unusual
>> stress, even damage to the plant.
>>
>> I had discovered a rz with multiple stalks coming out of it, I called it
>> "squid" stalks because I had been watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
>> and it reminded me of the squid in the movie. It was around 2/18 and I
>> remember that Bill Shear suggested an effect called "fascination".
>> Another term that I think I remember was "accordian".
>>
>> Does Celebration Song do this routinely? Does anyone know of others?
>>
>
>John -- I noticed a second bloomstalk on a single rhizome as I was
>culling seedlings the other day. The second stalk appeared to have
>sprung out from underneath the first. No other sign of abnormality in
>the clump.
>
>Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon.
>jgcrump@erols.com
>
John-- After reading yesterday's comments I went home and rechecked my
Sultry Mood and it does have three bloomstalks coming off the center rz.
This is a new variety to my garden. I purchased it from Schreiner's Gardens
last summer. It also has two more rz one off each side that did not purduce.
Sharyn Hedrick, along the Severn River,Annapolis
