HYB:REB:Summer & Early Fall

Here is a list of introduced irises that have bloomed for me during the  
summer or early fall in KY over a period of 20+ years.  Based on recent  records 
and earlier memories.   
 
 
This group blooms quite a bit when established and even a little happy:  Feed 
Back, Sugar Blues, Total Recall, Pink Attraction, All Revved Up,  Cantina, 
and Immortality.  (Star Gate has summer bloomed in a  couple of climates and may 
eventually join this group.) Feed Back is the only  one that kicked in this 
summer and I suspect it received water along with the  seedling beds.  
 
 
Newer irises (for me) that have shown this capability at least once (need  
more testing): Again & Again, Lunar Whitewash, Lord of Rings, Luminosity,  
Renown & Echo Location.  
 
 
 
Some, like Violet Miracle, October Sky, Renown, Vanishing Act, Returning  
Chameleon, Blazing Sunrise, & Champaign Elegance, Fiere Andre, have  bloomed in 
July or August, at least once.  (Without  irrigation.)  Returning Chameleon 
usually gives good fall bloom, but  not always as early as July.   
 

 
Irises that are Repeat bloomers in my garden: Pure As Gold, Summer  Radiance, 
& Diamond Blush.  These irises bloom about six weeks after  their spring 
bloom season.  They can fall bloom in other conditions but  have not for me.  
Perfect Interlude gave repeat stalks for me back in the  late 80's and will 
occasionally show up on my lists.  
 
There are many fall blooming cultivars, including Matrix & Violet  Miracle.  
I won't attempt to report all of these as they represent the bulk  of the 
rebloom cultivars.  (my opinion)  
 
I grow many irises, introduced in the past 20 years, which have been  
reported to bloom off season somewhere.  In a good year, many of these  start 
blooming late September and continue through a killing  freeze.  Many have never 
bloomed off season for me.  
 
Why do I list all of these, yet again?  Just sharing the wealth!   These 
irises have the capability to bloom early in more difficult  climates and may pass 
it along to their children.  It is my belief  that a heavy dose of these 
irises will increase the over all occurrence of  early, off season bloom.  
 
Testing is on going. 
 
 


 
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Betty W.  in South-central KY Zone 6 ---If you don't cross them, you can't 
plant them!  
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Some seedlings planted and some still  in the pots! 
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