Re: rebloom
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- Subject: Re: rebloom
- From: W* J* <w*@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:13:05 -0700 (MST)
Rick Tasco/Roger Duncan wrote:
>
> WAYNE JOBE wrote:
>
> > Mary,
> > I have had both Eleanor Roosevelt and Black Magic for years and Black
> > Magic out reblooms ER all the time. Some years ER doesn't even rebloom,
> > so if your iris is dependable it is probably Black Magic.
> > Leslie
>
> Leslie,
>
> I wouldn't be so quick as a Nebraskan to make that statement for a
> California garden.
>
> Here at Superstition, we only grow Eleanor Roosevelt and we bought it
> from 4 or 5 different sources (only VERY reputable, including HIPS ID
> Chairman Phil Edinger) and it was ALL the exact same plant. In fact, we
> got it twice from Phil E to be sure. So we're sure we have Eleanor
> Roosevelt and in our California garden, ER is one of the most dependable
> rebloomers we grow!
>
> So maybe in Omaha, BM outperforms ER, but that would be tough to do here
> in our Central California climate garden because ER is so VERY, VERY
> dependable as a rebloomer!
>
> Rick Tasco
> Superstition Iris Gardens
> Central California Sierra Nevada foothills--Zone 8--64 high and 43 low
> yesterday with mostly blue sky
My Eleanor Roosevelt came from the Sass Gardens twelve years ago and I
grew it mostly in Texas and New Mexico along with Black Magic. I've only
been back to Neb. a year. The gardens in NM that grew both also had the
same rebloom luck I had with both, in fact in one garden ER never
rebloomed for them. A friend of mine in Kansas had ER on the south side
of her house and she had better luck with it reblooming. Mine was out in
the open in the same bed as Bl Magic and Crimson King (which never
rebloomed for me). But Black Magic was almost an everbloomer.
Leslie
