Re: CULT:Bloom and growth report
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT:Bloom and growth report
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:32:01 -0400
From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
>From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
>
>Hi folks , I'm very pleased to announce that I've got two stalks up on
>IB rebloomer LO HO SILVER . After only seven weeks of being in the
>ground and a poor start due to intense heat , they should bloom in about
>a week or so . I'm going to collect pollen from it to freeze with hopes
>of passing on the everblooming genes into a few crosses next spring.
>
>All new TB additions to my garden are doing very well , GOLDEN GALAXY ,
>CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE , BENGAL TIGER , BLACK OUT , SKY HOOKS , HELEN BOEHEM
>and JESSE'S SONG are all growing so rapidly that I now regret planting
>them so close together. The reluctant growers are two rhizomes of
>IMMORTALITY and SPIRIT OF MEMPHIS and two rhizomes of ISTANBUL. I
>somehow feel that the latter two won't survive our icy Quebec winters.
>
>Chris Darlington
>Up north in Canada where it was so dry that that grass is now completely
>yellow.
Dear Chris: My niece Margaret Zurbrigg Purdon lives near Waterloo PQ and
she and Burn have a good planting of irises. Their star rebloomer is
ENGLISH COTTAGE. Lloyd Zurbrigg, Durham, NC
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