Re: Cult: bloom report
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- Subject: Re: Cult: bloom report
- From: M* S*
- Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:44:52 -0700
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
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>From: ItsRoTalk@aol.com
>
>I have too many Irises in bloom right now to list them all. I just wanted
to
>point out a few that are working overtime in my garden!
>APOLLO ONE (Sutton's) is one prolific little plant! This is a first year
>plant and it has 4 stalks. It's been blooming for a little over a week now,
>with 1-3 flowers open each day. Today, it has 10 blooms open with another
21
>buds waiting their turn!
Oooooo good to hear, I have several reports of rebloom from zone 4 to zone
10. It has never rebloomed for us, probably because we keep digging it in
August.
I do
>have to put in a vote for Schreiner's seedling EE 603-A. If this plant
>doesn't get introduced, I won't know why!! Snow white standards, bright
>yellow beards and white falls edged in purple. It looks like you dipped the
>falls into grape juice and the color was wicked up. It's a wonderful "water
>color" effect. The plant itself is growing very well and has 3 stalks. I'm
>just thankful that I planted it away from most of my other plants or no one
>would look at them!! Very striking and I'm thrilled to have it in my
garden!
Ditto! What an iris! Grows well here too.
>
>Joni in Ga
>zone 7b
>AIS, HIPS, TBIS, GIS
>who's already planning for next year!!!!
Mike
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