Re: REB: Rebloom in Zone 4b (was ? white TB parents)

Jeff, I'd really appreciate a list of the rebloomers you've had success with. I'm a hobby gardner in zone 4b in Wisconsin, and would have tried a few rebloomers here without success. I'd like to shop for specific iris that have a better chance in this climate.
kris

Jeffrey Walters wrote:

mahlberg s <s_j_mahlberg@yahoo.com> wrote: Linda, I certainly will have a challenge with certain cultivars here in zone 4b.
I would like to work with rebloomers, but I think that I will rarely have growing seasons long enough for anything to rebloom here, though I have had newly purchased cv's bloom in November last year just before we got the deep freeze.
Time will tell. The cv's I have grown in the past were not noted as rebloomers, but I am going to start venturing out in that direction. I will get one bloom per year at any rate.
Steve,

I do not wish to sound discouraging, but my experience gardening in Zone 4b in Utah has been that very often there is no successful bloom at all from "warm climate" rebloomers that have a habit of sending up stalks too early in the spring, which get blasted by the almost inevitable "late" spring frosts, and then complete the hat trick by sending up their fall stalks so late that they are duly zapped by the "early" autumn frosts. "Cool" climate rebloomers, such as PINK ATTRACTION are more likely to have two successful bloom seasons per year, but the most floriferous rebloomers here have habits like CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE, which send up bloomstalks repeatedly from the middle of summer until they are cut down by frost.









Jeff Walters
in northern Utah
(USDA Zone 4)

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