Re: REB: Rebloom article...Lengthy !....was Rebloom comments



On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Rick Tasco/Roger Duncan wrote:

	I am inserting some modern examples growing in my reblooming beds.
> 
> 1. Extremely slow maturing iris which does not bloom in the spring and
> sometimes not in the fall.  <examples are given using older iris>.
> 
	SUMMER OLYMPICS, PRISCILLA OF CORINTH, SUKY, AUTUMN APRICOT, PINK
ATTRACTION, FREQUENT FLYER, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

> 2. An extremely vigorous sort, possessing the tendency for rapid
> vegetative increase and new fall growth.  It blooms in the fall far down
> in the fan, often with but a protion of the flower projecting from
> between the leaves.
> 
	MY FRIEND JONATHAN (This has never produced a decent stalk in the
spring or fall---all blooms are down in the fan)

> 3. This type seldom if ever blooms in this climate (Indiana).  Actually
> it does break dormancy in the late fall.  Its buds have developed just
> enough to be killed by the first hard freeze with the result that the
> center stalk is blasted and the vigor distruibuted to the side
> increases, provided it survives the winter.
> 
	SARAH'S LAUGHTER, MOTHER EARTH, WINDS OF CHANGE, RECURRING DREAM
        ICELAND, HEART OF ICE
> 
4. This type blooms both spring and fall but actually should be
> classified as a once-bloomer since each rhizome blooms but once with the
> increases not maturing during the one growing season.  The most mature
> rhizomes of the clump bloom in the spring; the less mature bloom in the
> fall.
> 
	RECURRING RUFFLES  
	Some here may not be 'less mature', but rather stunted from he
heat of summer.
> 
5. A fifth type, a genuine rebloomer, blooms early in the spring, often
> with the Standard Dwarfs.  By the end of the blooming season it has gone
> into a dormant stage and is ready for transplanting.  During the middle
> of the summer it remains dormant and is often rather unsightly.  Early
> in August it comes to life, rapidly shooting up fans and blooms stalks
> which perform until cut down by the first hard freeze.
> 
	CERTAINLY CERTAINLY, TOTAL RECALL, REMEMBER SPRING
		See comment on number 6.

> 6. A sixth type, likewise a genuine rebloomer, blooms with the earliest,
> matures side increases with great rapidity, has a second full reblooming
> period in the middle of the summer, and matures its side increases and
> goes into a complete third cycle in September and October.    
> 
	6 and 7 are quite similar.  "Blooms with the earliest bothers me"
in that I feel some in category 6 are 'leftover buds from the fall' that
didn't freeze because they had not emerged.

> 7. A seventh type, and one which most nearly approaches the everbloomer
> that we have, is the iris which constantly matures increase, sending up
> bloomstalks whenever the rhizome has matured sufficiently.
> 
	SUNNY DISPOSITION, NORTHWARD HO


	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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