Re: REB:Rebloomers Revisited

On Sep 3, 2004, at 11:46 AM, laurief wrote:

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?

Because the standard was written by normal people that assume that readers will a conventional interpretation. No doubt that the entire handbook would profit by a great deal of more specificity, often in areas much more cloudy than this.

You can mince words forever on anything. Reasonable standard, reasonable interpretation, community usage.



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.


That is why the REB report asks for zone information. There are no absolutes.

Irises turn different colors in different soils. Suffer different diseases in different areas of the country. Bloom differently in in different environs.

You have to be flexible.

John                | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

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