Re: IRIS-L digest 638


Gunnar asked:

About IRIS  the TB season have started.

FILM FESTIVAL started, and then FANFARON....gosh...I really liked that
one!!! followed by  PINK ROSE, GIGOLO, JAZZ FESTIVAL an d TEQUILA
SUNRISE and today AMERICAN BEUTY.

one small question why are the stalks so short???

the tallest one fanfaron was 60 cm and the shortest was Pin rose with
only 30 cm.
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Here in Western N.Y. (at least in the city planting that I know and inspect)
several TB's bloomed short, especially early in the peak bloom period.
These seemed to be in areas that were wetter, or had poorer drainage. I
thought that they were cold and wet for a long time, then we had a warm 
spell, and they grew and bloomed too quickly.  I think that plants bloom
under stress and miserable as the bloom looked, they were trying to get to
the bloom stage in case the weather never became suitable.

I don't mean to ascribe the powers of thinking to the plants -- at a loss to
find the other words.

The plants need to survive, so they bloom as quickly as possible, on the
chance they'll be pollenated, and then they can go into rapid production of
increases. With a rhizome in damp conditions, increases are more likely to
fail to survive, so the only hope is the bloom/seeds??

That's how I look at these shortened blooms. 

HOWEVER, in other spots, particularly that row that has been TB's since
I planted it almost 15 years ago -- have never changed the soil, or rotated
the iris to other spots, and etc. -- has glorious bloom!! Or did till it
rained last night.  I've enlarged this row to include a small row of IB's
which are STILL in bloom.  Clarence Mahan's 'Reminisence' (even if I spell 
it right) is blooming some more. I didn't keep track of the bud count on it,
but it was out earlier than the TB's and is still producing blooms, as is
'Petite Monet' right next to it. and a couple of tiny ones are throwing a
bloom here and there!! 

There are spots out there that like TB's and a few spots that don't want TB's
in them!! I have a hard time accounting for this.

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I need to reach Lloyd Zurbrigg -- would someone send me his email address, or
if you're there, Lloyd, please contact me privately??

Schaffcm@buffalostate.edu

THANKS!!

Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY ---where Immortality is still blooming, too!

And I think I have misclassified 'Petite Monet' and Reminsence'
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