Re: TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?

I have never seen anything in Blyth's catalogues indicating their cultivars 
individual growth requirements. I have found quite a few cultivars to be 
susceptible to rot: CHOCOLATE VANILLA, AZTEC BURST, SILK DEGREES, VANDA'S 
SONG, LONGING, SOME ARE ANGELS,  all suffered badly, and I lost some of 
these completely.
Other, eg. AURA LIGHT, YES, WITCHING, MAKING EYES, IMPRIMIS, grow like weeds 
for me. It may be the different positions in the garden, and they may indeed 
all perform the same, given exactly the same conditions.
It seems that most of them increase well, and need to be moved fairly 
frequently. YES and AURA LIGHT end up producing rather small rhizomes after 
only 2 seasons growth.

>SULTAN'S DAUGHTER 1995 - bloomed once, 2 seasons ago, with 1 mis hsapen 
>bloom, because of frost damage. Growing well now, and should have heaps of 
>bloom. Fingers crossed.

>DRAGON DRUMS 1998 - growing well, plenty of increase. Only new so I don't 
>expect bloom this season.
>LIVING FREE 1999 - as for DD

>YES 1996 - This goes in the weed category for me. I prefer the flower on 
>AURA LIGHT, but YES blooms prolifically, and is quite neat, where AL tends 
>to look like a pile of old tissues unless I constantly dead head the 
>blooms. YES produces an extraordinary number of blooms with too many falls. 
>Probably because it blooms very early and suffers from cold damage.
It is about to bloom here.

I am disappointed with WITCHES WAND, and TOMORROW'S CHILD, which take 
advantage of my hospitality, by greedily consuming the nutrients of my soil, 
and increasing madly, but have never yet bloomed. They may both stay in 
Castlemaine when we shift!

Everything seems early here this year, and there are lots of TB's with bent 
stalks. The weather has been on a roller coaster. A few cold days, and 
everthing stands still, then a warm day and all the buds open at once. Next 
day rain, and all the blooms turn to rags. Very frustrating.
Cheers, Jan Clark, in Aus


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