Re: REB:Rebloomers Revisited

In my opinion there is no such thing as re-bloom. A fan on an iris only
blooms once. Since re-bloom is used as a general term for the cultiver that
blooms more than once. You had re-bloom. Your stalk was set in your garden.
If you had not dug it it would have likly bloomed now. If you had received
the rhizome from another garden it could not be claimed as re-bloom.

Lets not get picky. If you bought a rhizome last year and it did not bloom
at all the next year would it be considered a non-blooming iris? You could
not call it a re-bloomer or even a spring bloomer.

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b
SW Ohio
Region 6
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "laurief" <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:29 PM
Subject: [iris] REB:Rebloomers Revisited


> OK, I know I've asked for this clarification before, but I've never
> received it, and now it looks like I'm gonna need it!  To my great
> delight, LILTING is sending up a lovely tall stalk that looks like it
> might make it to bloom before it gets cut down by frost.  This'll be the
> second time LILTING has rebloomed for me over the last 3-4 yrs, *except*
> that I'm not sure this one can be counted as *legitimate* rebloom.
>
> Here's the situation.  I dug and divided my only clump of LILTING last
> summer and replanted 4 divisions in two different beds.  This spring,
> only one of the divisions bloomed in the main beds.  The stalk coming up
> now, however, is on a different division in a different bed.  So, is this
> rebloom or not?
>
> Anyone care to hazard an opinion?
>
> Laurie
>
>
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> normal annual precipitation 26-27"
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