REB: Little Show Off

From:	dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)

Since the weather here is too perfect today, I just had to get out in the
garden and do a bit of maintenance.  Much to my surprise there was a
bloomstalk coming up on a newly planted iris.  It was Little Show Off and
it was planted in August and bought from Sutton's Green Thumber.

Amazing!  It's a very small bloomstalk, and it doesn't appear to have been
blasted yet, so I will tend to it and see if I can't get this thing to
bloom for me in December.  It sounds impossible, but the weather forecast
is calling for sunny 70 degrees this coming weekend.  I don't know if El
Nino is still at work, or what, but we have not yet had any significant
snow fall, which is almost unheard of.

I know this doesn't exactly count as Zone 6 rebloom.  In my opinion an iris
has to have been in the ground at least one full year to get acclimated to
the new environment.  But if anyone else in Zone 6 has had Nov/Dec rebloom
on this cultivar, well, then, I just can't wait till next year to see it
again!

And now, I'm off to go finish up my garden clean up.  This weather is just
too exquisite!

Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: Arilbreds, Rebloomers, and Native Ohio Species Irises
(Check out my web page at http://home.fuse.net/dkramb/home.html)



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