CULT: bloom report
- Subject: CULT: bloom report
- From: L* M*
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 08:48:39 -0400
Just a few notes before I forget
First, I have to brag on our own list member, Dave Silverberg's ABBEY
ROAD. Nice healthy plant, normal height stalk, normal sized bloom, and
a lovely flower to boot, with nice wide hafts & good substance (genes I
need to perk up my doggy survivors here) plus a form I like. Plus it is
a fairly late bloomer here, so may do well even in worse seasons. Thank
you Dave!
VIZIER (a Ghio iris!) has put up a lovely stalk (loaded with pollen -
hooray!) on a second year plant. This one isn't thrilled with living at
my house, but has increased and the stalk is nice, although
miniaturized, plus it's a different color - sort of a modern LADY
FRIEND.
And finally, a whole row of first year plants, planted late last fall,
nearly all producing a bloom stalk (unheard of here), all Tompkins or
Plotner intros. Flowers are all normal sized, stalks all a bit on the
short size, but not bad. Favorites are UNDERSTUDY, a dark blue, heavily
washed with lines and darker edge - looks solid blue from a distance,
out of 'black' plicata background; and JUSTIN TYME, a very lovely blue
amoena, ruffled, nice form, not enough substance, but with a lot of
WHOLE CLOTH (PROGENITOR/reichenbachii) genes. I hope this one will
contribute lots of future babies with reichenbachii's tolerance of my
garden! Chet Tompkins sure did produce a lot of cultivars that are
tough.
SULTRY MOOD is outdoing herself this year. She has always been a super
reliable bloomer out in the open, but a 2 year clump is blooming
spectacularly in partial shade on very tall stalks & huge blooms. Not a
heavy bloomer, but wow.
A few newcomers yet to bloom - impatiently waiting for JAQUELINE, nice
tall first year stalk with black starting to show on the buds, & another
very nice seedling from local hybridizer, Tom Parkhill.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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