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

Hi Steve,
I have always felt there is nothing wrong with trying.  Extra water and
fertilizer will help your try at Rebloom.
Char, New Berlin WI 4b

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From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Walters
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:15 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] REB: Rebloom in Zone 4b (was ? white TB parents)

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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