Re: REB: Immortality really is

Nice to "hear" from you, Juanita! I still am full of questions for Lloyd :-(
But now I have one for you - why are you trying to kill those stubborn plants? Sounds like they are fighting back <g> 

Are they known cultivars or some of Lloyd's seedlings?
Maybe I should try plowing under one of the clumps of IMM here to see if that would make it bloom more often!
We <finally> got about 0.4 inches of rain - amazing how much difference such a tiny rainfall makes when there has been no rain for months! There have been showers in the area off and on all summer, but in my little valley, "lawns" have been nothing but brown crunchy or bare soil for a month or more. The day after it rained, there were little blades of green sticking up everywhere.
Lots of dead looking trees on the ridges around here - mostly in rocky areas. Forests don't look as uniformly brown as they did this spring after the freeze :-( 

<Immortality is presently reblooming in Durham NC.
Several of Lloyd's iris which were mowed down and plowed under on purpose...twice in the last year and a half... gave beautiful bloom in the spring. 

We have had no rain since June 9.
Lots of "immortals"!
Nita Zurbrigg>
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