REB: Rebloom report, with mystery
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- Subject: REB: Rebloom report, with mystery
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:57:12 -0700 (MST)
Today - in honor of my birthday - two medians planted in my yard in early
August have bloomstalks emerging:
LO HO SILVER (no surprise there) and the Byers cultivar HOT which Lowell
sent as an extra.
I've seen LHS do its small thing at the State Capitol this month, but
haven't ever seen HOT and am afraid the deep freeze forecast for this
weekend will preclude that.
Oh, well.
In our club's partially refurbished Capitol beds, IMMORTALITY has put on a
small show all month, sending up four stalks. LHS has been in bloom two
weeks, as have two mystery TB cultivars that will probably be ousted next
summer unless one of our local ladies who planted them years ago recognizes
them in rebloom.
For the curious, one is a large modern-form pink self found thriving in a
part of the old bed traditionally called "the Dykes bed," the other is a
dramatic, no, a *majestic* near-black purple with horizontally held ruffled
falls and a rather modern look. Both also bloomed like crazy this spring.
Neither could possibly be a rogue seedling, just trust me on that. All
plants in the bed are known to pre-date '92. Any suggestions?
(Please don't turn purple, this isn't the name game. It just occured to me
those of you with more experience of rebloomers might mention a few
Southern rebloomers fitting these descrips and one of the names might match
what we found in the old records for that bed. We have a list of names but
no map, in other words. Most of the plants are being discarded, but the
rebloom factor seems to narrow the odds a little, so it's worth asking.)
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock ... where, for all of those who have counseled me off-line this
year about my irascible non-blooming orchids, two of the little stinkers
have also suddenly sprouted bloomstalks - happy birthday!
