Re: Re: repeat bloom vs bloom on increase

In a message dated 5/6/2005 7:09:45 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:
 
 


<<Judge Betty <g>.>>
 
In order to put this all in perspective, I will answer this part  first!  ;-) 
 What I say is always just my opinion.  We all have  them!  But, it's a more 
educated opinion than it was 20 years ago!   Even so, people often disagree 
based on their own opinion!  
 
In other words . . . it's worth what your paying for it!

<<So, speaking of ambiguities (!), is this bloom 'immediately'  after
spring bloom, or is it just another part of spring  bloom?>>
PEARL CHIFFON was distinct in my earlier garden because it produced a lot  of 
stalks in the clump.  However, all stalks came up at the same time,  were 
exactly the same height and branching, and they all bloomed at the same  time.  
Then it was gone!  Beautiful but maddening!  
 
Most irises that I grow don't behave this way!  Thank goodness!   Two or 
three stalks emerge, and then another stalk, and another, until the clump  is 
finished and it's season is over.  In my opinion, these are  sequential bloom 
stalks, not repeat bloom.  (This is why I think the word  immediately clouds the 
issue.) 
 
I'm only trying to interpret what other's write.  It is possible that  the 
official definition does include these stalks that bloom at the end of  the 
clump's regular season. 
 
My personal definition of repeat bloom: 
1) These irises do NOT give late summer or fall bloom.  
2) The season is over and LAST HURRAH has given up it's last bloom!  
3)Then you spot stalks emerging here and there on clumps that have already  
bloomed.  These are repeat bloom.  (my opinion)  
 
If REPEATERS are to extend the spring bloom season from 4 - 8 weeks as  
stated in the current judges handbook, I think my definition makes sense!
 
To define by example:  (In my garden)
 
Cyclic Rebloomer=Summer Olympics.  It has a distinct and  predictable fall 
cycle of bloom.
Countinuous Rebloomers=Immortality and others that can bloom any  time and in 
most climates.  
Repeater=Summer Radiance. May initiate new stalks anywhere from  a week to 4 
weeks after spring bloom, but NEVER blooms in the fall.   (Has started repeat 
bloom up to 6 weeks after regular bloom) 
Sporadic=Victoria Falls, Beverly Sills etc.  
 
 
 
Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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