TB: Rebloom report
- To: Iris-talk <i*@onelist.com>
- Subject: TB: Rebloom report
- From: L* M* <l*@icx.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:43:06 -0800
From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
SECOND WIND opened yesterday evening under its Reemay tunnel. I got
home too late to risk uncovering it in the dark and it's a shivver above
freezing this AM, so I had to take a look. What a beauty! This is the
form that is my ideal - tall, straight stalk, medium-large sized bloom,
lots of ruffles, waterfall form to the falls (I really REALLY dislike
the 'modern' horizontal form), good substance, sequential opening of
flowers rather than show stalk 'wadding up'. You guys who live where
you can grow anything you like probably can't understand what a delight
this thing is right now.
It has bloomed so late that most years, it would be killed if not
covered. I plan to move some of it out to the gravelly killing fields
next year to see if it will start forming stalks earlier in the season.
This is the only one of the Byers rebloomers that I got last summer that
has managed to bloom here so far - a couple died, others have limped
along. I fear the combination of happy vigor from Suttons in southern
California combined with totally abominable growing conditions here was
more than they could cope with. Mike, do you ever ship TBs in late
March? That would get me past the Feb/Mar freezes and give the plants a
better chance to adjust to the miseries.
Lloyd Z - are other hybridizers working with IMMORTALITY children in
more hostile environments than the Byers babies came from?
Walter M - have you worked with IMMORTALITY offspring? Your environment
isn't as hostile as mine, but at least it's worse than California
usually.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
guess I better go to work sometime today so I can buy more plants
-aggghhh!
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