OT-BIO:Colleen Modra
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Hello from Australia,
I'm very new to this online stuff.
My husband Les and I run an iris and daylily nursery in the Adelaide Hills of
South Australia. Nice deep sandy loam, pH6.1 Frosts for about 7 months of the
year but rarely snow. Wet winters and dry summers. Whats the equiv USA zone? Our
summer max temp is about 40 degrees C and our winter daytime max is usually over
8degrees. The heaviest frosts would be about 10 degrees of frost. So we can grow
most anything. Out main TB bloom season is late Oct and early Nov for LA and
Spu.
With rebloomers mostly Australia likes autumn and winter rebloommers, to avoid
the summer heat but we have problems with ours being caught by frost. Like the
rest of Aust we are having a fairly early year. My TB Olymparico which usually
beats everything by flowering in late August bloomed at the end of July and was
ruined by frost. I was surprised this morning to find some of my LA heading up
already. All were Heather Pryor's breeding, Jacaranda Lad, La Stupenda and
Charlottes Tutu. I think I will Have LAs out before most of my TBs.
Today it is very gusty and warm with a strong wind preceeding a cool
change.Maybe some rain??. It has been a very dry end to winter.
I have hybridized a lot over the last couple of years and had a number of
seedlings bloom in late summer, I partic want reblomers. I used Twilight Blaze a
lot last years both as pod and pollen parent and have a partic high germination
rate so far- anybody else found this.
That all for now, I prob should go back to work, but maybe I'll go and smell the
plum blossom instead..
Coleen Modra, Charleston SA
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