Re: REB: Rebloom report, with mystery

I asked if anyone knew of a pink self and a dark, dark purple (near black)
self that rebloom in the South. Both are modern-looking plants; the purple
holds its falls out nearly horizontal. Years ago our club's master lists
for the display beds got mixed up, so now we have lists but no map. Most of
the 300+ plants are being discarded - we sold off more than 100 this
summer, as nameless landscape irises for which we happened to have lovely
photos. Broke our hearts, but what can you do?
Now we have these two rebloomers doing their thing anonymously, and it
occurs to me that reblooming is a trait that might narrow the odds of
identification.

Always practical, Rick suggests:
>The list of names would help....somewhat like multiple choice.

I started with our master lists (various old handwritten lists) and took
out all the plants that I recognized as obviously not right. I left in
everything else, even those whose listed coloration is not a uniform "pink
self," because blooms can appear different colors in differing soils. And I
left them in whether they were listed in R&I as Rebloomers or not, on the
theory that since I don't know that much about rebloomers, I don't know if
the R&I lists are exhaustive.

Here then are the pinks and purples for your expert consideration. Do any
of these rebloom in the South?

ANNA BELLE BABSON
BASHFUL BRIDE
BEVERLY SILLS
BLACK FLAG
DARK TRIUMPH
DAVID KEITH
DIRTY DANCING
DUSKY CHALLENGER
GEORGIA GIRL
HELLO DARKNESS
HOLY NIGHT
HOUDINI
KING'S CASTLE
LOVELY KAY
MIDNIGHT HOUR
NURSERY SCHOOL
ORBITER
PARADISE
PARTY GIRL
PINK ATTRACTION
PINK PIROUETTE
PINK TAFFETA
PINK SWAN
PLAYGIRL
STAR STUDDED
THRILLER
TITAN'S GLORY
VANITY
VISION IN PINK

HOLY NIGHT and PINK ATTRACTION, which several of you have mentioned as
possiblities, are on the lists.

We cut the bloomstalks Friday night, hoping the flowers will finish opening
in time for Sunday's Central Arkansas Iris Society meeting, which should be
attended by some of the older folks who first planted the beds and by our
garden judges. If they agree PA and HN are possible id's, what we'll do is
buy new rhizomes of those plants next summer, plant them next to our
current clumps and then compare behavior and bloom.
We're already doing this for eight plants we thought we'd identified; and
we have already learned from the foliage that one cannot be the plant we
thought. It will be ousted and sold as a nameless landscape plant.

Thank you again!

celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock ... where the first hard freeze of fall is reportedly just
hours away. I wish whoever made the crack about Arkansas not having pretty
fall foliage could have seen Little Rock this month. The maples have been
spectacular. It's true, the central part of the state doesn't always have
colorful autumns, but every three years or so we have a beauty, and this is
one of those years. Also, FYI, northwestern Arkansas is gorgeous every
year. Our state straddles the conjunctions of vastly different geographic
planes, so what holds in the Delta or around Texarkana should not be taken
as true of the whole state, especially as regards fall foliage.
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