Re: Re: CULT: survivors

Hi Linda

I have had Avalon Sunset for two or three winters now. It is about an average grower for
me. Copatonic is in the same league as Immortality and Clarence for growth in my garden.
Orinico Flow is another very good grower.. it is a tall bearded here. Merlot is very tough,
however, it only seems to bloom every second year (maybe my growing conditions
though....it has had pretty tough competition with weeds a number of times).

I just got So Fine as a potted flower this spring so too early on that one. The others I
haven't tried.

There are a number of others that are very hardy, but I think I have mentioned them
before ( eg. American Classic, Swingtown, Loyalist, Before the Storm, Devil's Lake, etc.)

Sandra
SE Manitoba
Zone 3

P.S. I don't recall Silverado being discussed, but I may have missed it. I remember
the comments about Edith Wolford. ;-)





Linda Mann wrote:

Let's try this again.  I'm always looking for the few really good TBs
that thrive under my growing conditions, and some other folks here are
also interested in learning which ones those are.  Plus I may want to
use them for hybridizing some day, if they are super performers.

Schreiners has introduced several that thrive for me.  The last few
years, I've been ordering a few somewhat recent intros from them very
late in the growing season, getting them in the ground in October,
keeping them covered with floating non-woven fabric plant bed covers.
This way, they usually bloom well the following spring.

The one that I got last year that did the best was AVALON SUNSET.
Anybody else growing it?  How's it doing?

RIP CITY is a very healthy weed here, but bloom was frozen out.  How's
it doing for the rest of you?

SO FINE, SUNSHINE AND SNOW both bloomed really well but haven't been all
that healthy/vigorous since.  They aren't duds, just not thriving.  How
are they doing elsewhere?

Sorry I even mentioned poor ol SILVERADO in that first post .  We
beaten/praised her to death at least twice a year for the seven years
we've been discussing irises here.

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