Re: Cult: Bloom every other year
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult: Bloom every other year
- From: L*
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:38:20 -0800
>BEST BET will settle down after a few years of adjustment to its new
>home, but FEATURE ATTRACTION never has, and I refuse to try it again
>unless somebody locally had success and will offer me a rhizome from
>their clump
Walter,
I'm glad to know someone else has trouble with Feature Attraction. I'm
lucky if I get bloom every other year. It was so lovely in Portland in
'94. My favority that year. Usually Schreiner's stuff grow great for
me... I can't explain this one.
But I've sometimes seen an unusual trait is some of Schreiners. For
example, Pledge Allegiance ('83), a medium blue, was a strong grower for
me... lots of increase.. however, it would only bloom for me every OTHER
year. Did the same no matter where I planted it or what I fed it. I
finally realized that was it's trait, at least for me, and decided an iris
couldn't stay in my garden if it only bloomed every 2 years. I've wondered
if it has a genetic in it that makes it perform that way. I've had one or
two other Schreiner's act similiar, and still wonder if there is connected
genetics.
Kitty Loberg
Northern Calif.
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