Re: REB: Rebloom Defined ??? (and 'also' Repeat Bloom)

Hey this is interesting.  Anyone give some names of beardless Iris that
rebloom.  How about Japanese Iris?
Sandra
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ellen Gallagher" <ellengalla@yahoo.com>
To: "irishort" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: [iris] REB: Rebloom Defined ??? (and 'also' Repeat Bloom)


> Laurie quoted:
>
> >>> Beardless varieties which rebloom are called *Repeaters*.
> They produce additional bloom stalks from old  growth. <<<
>
> And then wrote:
>
> >>> This is fascinating!  I had no idea the beardless irises
> rebloomed from
> old growth!  Does this mean *each individual rhizome* can both
> spring
> bloom and repeat bloom? <<<
>
> No. Repeat bloom in the beardless classes (specifically
> Siberians) does not include bloom out of season as in remontancy
> tendency.  They are called 'repeaters' because they do have a
> short period of presumed end of bloom for the season (usually 5
> to 14 days) and then they start up again. This is more and more
> common and greatly extends the 'normal' bloom season.
>
> If anyone has Siberians blooming in the late summer or fall,
> please let the Siberian Society know. As Editor of 'The Siberian
> Iris', I would put your posy on the cover...well, maybe the back
> cover. :-)
>
> Ellen
>
>
>
>
> =====
> Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com /Berlin, New Hampshire - USDA Zone
3
> ~~
> Siberian iris mailing list archives 1999 - 2004:
> http://www.hort.net/lists/sibrob/    (1996 - 1999 messages not archived)
> ~~
> The Society for Siberian Irises web page:  http://www.socsib.org
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
> message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index