HIST: CULT: HYB: results of experiments-SNOW FLURRY
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- Subject: HIST: CULT: HYB: results of experiments-SNOW FLURRY
- From: l* M*
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:59:20 -0400
First year plant of SNOW FLURRY was undamaged by late freezes (except
maybe shorter & smaller flowers) and sent up two (!) bloom stalks. For
comparison, only about a dozen of 80 plants in that row of newly set
plants bloomed this year.
As most of you who've been on this list for a while have heard, my
garden is infamous for rollercoaster freeze/heat cycles through winter
and spring, usually finishing off with a ferocious killing freeze in
March that wrecks bloom, sets things up for disease, etc. As everyone
else in the area is enjoying the most spectacular bloom season in 50
yrs, mine got creamed again, tho bloom before the freeze was nice and
late bloom has been great (tho foliage looks bad on nearly everything).
For entertainment <g>, I've been growing a few historics that seem to
show up frequently in pedigrees of the tougher irises I grow here. I
will report on the other experiments later. Been busy daubing pollen,
touring gardens, and just staring.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7-8
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