Re: Bloom season beginning!
- Subject: Re: [iris] Bloom season beginning!
- From: Sandra Barss b*@mb.sympatico.ca
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:45:25 -0700
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Hi
I currently have two MDB's in bloom, Autumn Embers and Ruby Eruption
should be blooming in a
few days and Immortality has also one bloom stalk up (not blooming yet).
Clarence is going to be
a close second in TB's bloom again this year.
Sandra
SE Manitoba
Christopher Darlington wrote:
>Laurie,
>
>You are ahead of me, I did find some swollen fans on a cross of between
>Apple Blossom Pink and a small purple unknown. Seedlings should finally
>make an appearance this year, I can hardly wait.
>
>I just wanted to mention that I had great results using Ceder mulch in
>two of my beds. Mulch during the summer appears to have allowed for
>better increase and larger rhizomes There was no heave in these beds
>either.
>
>Enjoy your little ones
>Chris
>
>laurief wrote:
>
>
>>>Arnold - now I can be envious of folks in Iowa, too.
>>>
>>>
>>Ellen, feel free to be envious of at least one northern MN gal, too! ;-)
>> SDB CAUTION SIGN opened the season yesterday with a single bloom, but
>>the clump is covered with buds on the verge of popping! Buds are popping
>>up on many other MDBs and SDBs, too, though the main beds behind the
>>house are always a week to ten days behind the rebloomer beds where CS is
>>located. Looks like bloom on anything taller than SDB is going to be
>>minimal again this year, but the littleuns will do their absolute best to
>>make up for their wussy bigger brothers and sisters.
>>
>>Let the fun begin!!!
>>
>>Laurie
>>
>>-----------------
>>laurief@paulbunyan.net
>>http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
>>http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/shadowood/irisintro.html
>>USDA zone 3b, AHS zone 4 - northern MN
>>acidic clay soil
>>
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