Re: Reblooming Arilbred Median also TOUGH
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- Subject: Re: Reblooming Arilbred Median also TOUGH
- From: D* S* <s*@molalla.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:58:48 -0700 (MST)
Walter A. Moores wrote:
>
> Today has been a good day to work outside as the temperature is in
> the lower seventies and there is little or no wind to kick up the dust.
> While adding a little sand as a top dressing to my arilbreds, I noticed
> that ARIL REVERIE has an emerging bud. This cultivar has been known to
> repeat into the summer months, but in December....never! My arilbred bed
> is on the south side of a brick wall under the eave. Obviously, the two
> freezes of 25o and 28o have not put A R to bed yet, and with no freezes
> predicted by the weatherman in the near future, it might just bloom!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
Hi Walter;
Since you brought up this cultivar, it seemed a perfect opportunity to
blow your horn for you. As you well know, our gardens were totally
neglected from October '95 until this summer and fall, when we did our
best to rescue many of the 2400 varieties we used to have. We really
started to dig in earnest after we returned to Oregon the end of
September, upon the completion of the Kasperek's move to Ellwood. By
that time, there had been enough moisture to make the ground much softer
than it had been before we headed out the end of August. While digging
through some particularly hardy patches of weeds and bull thistles, we
discovered ARIL REVERIE not only thriving, but with rhizomes so large,
that they promise us bloom next spring. Thus they have been lovingly
replanted in a display bed, as well as along our new perennial bed,
where they have earned the right to show off their stuff to all and
sundry. I have to admit that there were others whose performance was
astonishing, (mostly historics) but I simply had to let you, and all
else know, just what a healthy and vigourous plant you have developed.
Hats off to you, Walta!!!!
Nancy Silverberg, Molalla, OR, where we would still like a little more
time before we get shut out by the rains!!
