Re: CULT: Rebloom and fragrance

Thanks, Pat -- And besides the one that smelled good, did the others have fragrance, whether good or bad? -- Griff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Norvell" <patsiris@sbcglobal.net> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Rebloom and fragrance
It's funny that your E-mail came when I had just returned from our October iris meeting. The program was on reblooming irises. I mentioned that one of the irises that I brought was fragrant, but I hadn't figured out which one had scented my car. So, several of us went along the line sniffing the irises to see which one it was. The only iris there with a nice scent was one of the four that I brought, Daughter of Stars. Apparently, most of the rebloomers don't smell good when grown here in Dallas. Pat in Dallas 











 it's funny that

"J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:
 Last weekend's Region 4 regional convention at Blacksburg, VA, was an
excellent event, the more remarkable because it was organized by Don Rude in an area of southwest Virginia that has no local society. Also remarkable was a phenomenon observed at the show by myself and several other hybridizers and growers, namely, that every single iris in the show was fragrant. None had a 
fragrance that was hard to detect, and many had strong fragrance.

Yesterday, we observed the same phenomenon at the Chesapeake and Potomac
Reblooming Show in northern Virginia. Again, all of the fragrances were
easily detectable.
This contrasts, in our experience, with spring shows, which typically include 
at least several cultivars that have no discernable fragrance. So, we are
wondering if fragrance goes with rebloom.

If any of you have made the same observation, or if there are still some
reblooming shows pending out there, we'd like for you to be nosy and let us 
know what you sniff out. -- Griff

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