Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
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  • Subject: Re: Re: CULT: Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 07:41:32 -0500
Shaub, I wasn't particularly promoting rebloomers, but that's what others have suggested in the past as potentially having a better chance of survival and bloom in zone 9/10. I mentioned Byers' rebloomers in particular because I think he was originally from TN?(zone 7 mostly, tho back then it may have been zone 6) and after he moved to zone 10? CA, he was crossing CA things onto eastern cold hardy/disease resistant things like Immortality etc.
Immortality is a quirky beast. I tried to get her to grow here several times with no luck, but once she got established, she has thrived and you can spot her from a good distance in most hot/humid gardens of mostly once bloomers in mid-summer. She's the one with the healthy looking foliage. ;-)
But I'm not the only one who has had trouble getting her started. And she can be quite erratic about rebloom. Lloyd should have named her Goldilocks, tho that would have been confusing. ;-) Not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry, not cultivated too much, not too crowded in the clump, not too much fertilizer, etc etc 

Linda Mann

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