TB: Spouting Horn
- Subject: [iris] TB: Spouting Horn
- From: "John Reeds" l*@msn.com
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 20:35:50 -0700
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Last spring, Spouting Horn failed to bloom in its first year in my garden.
This year it was late, except for one mid-season stalk. Right now, with the
season well past peak it is sending up 8 or 10 tall, many-budded stalks. The
branching/placement is only so-so for the show bench, but lots of big, lovely
flowers held up high in the garden. Sturdy, healthy foliage and stalks.
Great unevenly washed blue color (not bluish-purple). Similar to Honky Tonk
Blues but a much richer, deeper color. The earlier stalk didn't take with
Louisa's Song pollen, but I'm trying again. What a wonderful late-season
surprise!
John Reeds, in San Juan Capistrano California (9b)
lamegardener@msn.com
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