Re: TB: Rebloom report

From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)

>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!
>Dear Linda: I understand many west-coast breeders have been using
>IMMORTALITY. Terry Aitken has introduced one from it. I have a real nice
>white SDB open that is from MARITA, (IMMORT> x pumila, and two other SDBs
>from MARITA, a chartreuse amoena and a white. Also a TB today from
>CLARENCE X SILVER DIVIDENDS, very good, but not as good as CLARENCE>
>Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC



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