Re: REB: Rebloom report, with mystery

>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!
Dear Celia: Any chance that the pink might be PINK ATTRACTION (EARL HALL);
which is a VANITY seedling?  Would hate to hazard a guess on the violet
one. Lloyd Zurbrigg Durham NC
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