Re: Re: REB: report & question

From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>

> From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
> That has been my experience, sort of.  Not as true for the everblooming
> IMMORTALITY, but has been the case for others.  Here, the problem seems
> to be more of trying to bloom too early in the spring & too late in the
> fall, rather than lack of capacity to bloom both times.  

Donald,

My experience has been the same as Linda's - rebloomers that try to bloom
too late in the fall seldom even try to bloom the following spring. I had
one iris, COLORWATCH, that got into this pattern as soon as I planted it
and never did successfully bloom up to the time I got tired of waiting and
chucked it. Other rebloomers, as Linda says, try to bloom much to early in
the spring to succeed in areas subject to late spring frosts. DUKE OF EARL
has been notorious in that respect here, and some of Monty Byer's other
introductions have shown the same tendency and have only escaped disaster
because of a lack of severe late frosts the past couple of years.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com





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