Re: REB:Total Recall

In a message dated 10/18/2005 2:01:59 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
colleen@impressiveirises.com.au writes:

<<I like Total Recall as a good reblooming garden plant but  consider
that there are much better plants avail to use for breeding  from.>>
Colleen, I understand what you are saying.  Although, the value of  
rebloomers is mainly in the garden, we definitely want to encourage the more  modern 
form.  TR seems to lure me in  from a distance, and I do  admire it's good 
qualities.  But the tucking and poor substance bother  me.  
 
I have two blooms on my counter as I write.  TR & MATRIX.   Examining blooms 
alone, TR is the better of the two.  More appealing to my  eye.  The quality 
may change as the day progresses and substance comes into  play more.  MATRIX 
was new in the garden last year and there was no spring  bloom.  One stalk that 
got frozen in my (very late) fall season last  year.  From what I've seen in 
pictures and read, I'd say it IS  MATRIX.  Somehow I wasn't quite expecting 
the grayed (yellow)  standards.  I'm not seeing any cinnamon veins.  But soils  
differ.  
 
What irises would you recommend? What is breeding quality rebloom in  
Australia?  
 
Last year, I planted the Innerst trio, LUNAR WHITEWASH, OVER AND OVER,  AND 
AGAIN AND AGAIN.  OAO was misnamed and is now replaced.  I trust  the grower 
and I'm sure I now have the correct one . . . but at least one year  late.  AAA 
I've described in another post.  LW rotted some but pulled  out of it and is 
putting up a third rebloom stalk.  Four stalks total for  the year on a rhizome 
planted last year.  Not shabby.  Beautiful form  but low bud count in off 
season.  

 
 




Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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