RE: Rebloom report, with mystery



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From: 	iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey
Sent: 	Thursday, November 13, 1997 5:57 PM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	REB: Rebloom report, with mystery

Today - in honor of my birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CELIA!)- 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.

Yo, Celia--if HOT is showing color in the bud, cut the stalk and take it 
indoors.  At least you'll get to see it (and smell it--it's highly fragrant).

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?


Your pink could be PINKNESS, a heartily reblooming Byers intro from 1988.  
Don't think I can guess at the purple, though.

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!

Happy birthday (are you old now?) from Barb in Santa Fe, where it is pelting 
down snow.
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