Re: Re: HYB: form, substance, & older stuff

In our climate Total Recall is a star. Always reblooms first week of March
and then often again in May, as well as it's Oct bloom. Usually looks better
in the autumn than in the spring.

Colleen Modra
IMPRESSIVE IRISES
PO Box 169
CHARLESTON  SA 5244

ph 08 8389 4439
fax 08 8389 4490

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:39 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: form, substance, & older stuff


> TOTAL RECALL was a bust here.  It tried to bloom a few times, rotted,
> had freeze damage, stunted stalks, buds that melted in the heat &
> humidity, never looked halfway decent, so I got rid of the remnants.
>
> In it's defence, in a different weather cycle (like this spectacular
> year!), it might have done well.  Too many better ones to bother with
> it.
>
> HARVEST OF MEMORIES is nearly always tall.
>
> Continuing the discussion about PINK FORMAL seedlings (from photos), the
> crunched up form I was talking about that is in both PF and the seedling
> rebloomer is the folds in the falls and standards.  They look as if the
> blooms haven't finished opening yet, but that's as far as they get.
>
> I haven't seen the collapsed, folded under standards you're describing
> Neil, tho some of the ultra-modern heavily ruffled ones look that way
> when they are stressed.  Somewhat like the posted photo of SUNNY
> DISPOSITION, only more extreme.  SD usually has fairly nice form here,
> better than in the photo.  Sorry, Betty, no photo.
>
> <> good performing rebloomers here that is too
>                    > short, too branchy, heavy budded, so doesn't make a
> nice display.  We
>                    > seem to get a lot of two types - short yellows to
> whites
>
>                    What about Total Recall?  Do you have it and how does
> it perform?  It bloomed
>                    for me this fall and was very tall and
> multi-branched. Even though it's in
>                    the yellow white category, it would make a nice
> display if it blooms as it did
>                    for me.
>
>                    Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6>
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
> American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
> talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
> photos archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
> online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
> message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index