Re: REB:Rebloomers Revisited

>The judges handbook makes this relatively clear IMHO

But it doesn't, John, as you noted in your next paragraph.
>
>A reblooming iris is one that blooms in the Spring and again in the 
>same growing season (JJ: implies in the same garden from the same 
>clump)

Implications are open to interpretation.  Why "imply" anything when a bit 
more information would clarify the matter without need for interpretation 
or misinterpretation?
>
>1. Rebloomers (Cyclic Rebloomers), the standard for this group, are 
>cultivars which complete two distinct cycles of bloom. After the Spring 
>flowering there is a second predictable period of bloom. (JJ: the 
>operative word being predictable)

True, but then there's that pesky category #4 (with its operative word 
"unpredictably") that the rare rebloomer actually manages to perform its 
way into up here in the frigid north.

Laurie



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normal annual precipitation 26-27"
slightly acid clay soil

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