Re: TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?

Jan

I'm surprised Tomorrows Child gives you problems, it flowers well here and
often reblooms in February.
Aztec Burst does well and I use it for hybridizing early bloomers. I think
Aura Light is a very dirty yellow.
I also have trouble with Lovers Lane (which I don't like) and Mind's Eye
which I love.

Witching(yuck colour), Wych Way, All Silent, Hostess Royale (yummy late
one), About Town (stunning), Going Home (lovely), Man About Town, are ones
that do very well for me.

The particularly poor doers are Aura Light, Covert Me, Affaire (yucky
colour)Pagan Dance, Pagan Mirth, Myst, . I have a lot of others which are
doing OK or have not been in long enough to comment.

In general I also find that Keppel stuff doesn't do well for me (Crowned
Heads seems to be doingOK after 6 months) but Ghio stuff is mostly good.
Schreiners some good, some not.

Colleen Modra
South Aust. Definately a zone 9 this winter. Usually 8/9
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] 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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