Re: TB: Lake Placid

From: "Julia Rankin" <breckenridge@bnis.net>

Dear Chris,

I grow Lake Placid -- this will be its third year of bloom for me. I am not
good at getting out there and counting increases or even making a bud count,
but it seems to me that it has done well enough that it needs to be
separated -- plenty of bloom in past years. It is very fragrant and I mean
to use it with Silverado and Rosette Wine to see if I can carry over the
frangrance to a new cv while working towards a more modern look.I got my
Lake Placid from White Flow4er Farms.

Julia Rankin
Lower Sierra Nevada where I had first bloom on the 11th (a bit early) with
Victoria Falls and Beyond the Storm very likely to bloom today.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: 'mart irises , other babbles


>From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
>
>Hi Folks,
> While we're on the subject of mart irises , I just thought  I'd mention
>that Walmart had a nice selection of rhizomes for sale in very
>attractive small boxes , my son and I immediately started flinging them
>into the shopping cart until I decided that it would probably be a good
>idea to inspect a few of them first.  This mini investigation proved
>very fruitful as each and every rhizome  inspected was rotten !  The
>brand name was Plant Smart , beware !  If you can't see it , don't buy
>it.
> Our quest for quality irises led us to a rather large garden center
>called Les Gardins Dion .  We stood perplexed in the perennial section
>wondering where the irises were , only to find them indoors under a
>table in almost darkness , to my amazement some of them had stocks about
>to bloom on them , but only four inch fans !  Finding this a little too
>weird , we chose BABBLING BROOK and SUPERSTITION in four inch pots and
>will hope for bloom in July.
>         Last thing , Does anybody grow a cyan TB called LAKE PLACID ?
>My rhizome is just sitting there , not rotting nor increasing , it has
>had a 1 inch fan for a month now .
> Oh yes , one other thing , last year the  unknowns from my Mother's
>patch had very smooth fans in texture , this year the fans are heavily
>veined and wrinkled and are twice as thick.  As they did not bloom last
>year,  can I interpret this as a good sign and expect a  bloom after a
>decade of none ?  Hope so !!!  I am personally getting envious of
>hearing everybody  boast of  magnificent blooms.
> All of this iris talk before bed is being processed into some mighty
>surreal dreams at night.  I wonder if I'm going mad or something.
>
> Thanks
> Christopher Darlington
>
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