Re: Re: REB: report

From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>

Jeff Walters wrote in agreement to Linda Mann:

> 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.

NEWSFLASH: Walter Moores sent me a rhizome of ROSALIE FIGGE and it has
a very tall bloomstalk and about to show some real color. I had just 
planted this in August. It lucked out since we are late for a killing 
frost this September (another frost term - there are more...).

I have every hope of seeing R.F. bloom this year since IMMORTALITY 
always did excepting the first year. My start of IMMORTALITY came from 
Lowell Baumunk and I thought the colder climate in CO was the reason for 
it...not so probably since our Walter lives in MS. 

Linda wrote:

> >   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.

Here in the 3rd Zone, IMMORTALITY was always a faithful rebloomer 
in Sept. just before the first frost. CRIMSON KING tried but never
made it. And the venerable BABY BLESSED never rebloomed once for me.
I did have some rebloom on REFINED at the end of August (SDB).

Our temps have gotten down to 35 F. in the main gardens...but parts of 
our propery had a light frost and the neighbor's had what looked to be a 
heavy frost but not a hard frost. (These subtle differences are a 
continual source of conversation up here this time of year.)

We are in the throes of autumn which is wonderful and signals garden 
cleanup time which is not so wonderful for a procrastinator like me.

Have to order some more bulbs before the ground freezes...

Cheers,

Ellen Gallagher / Zone 3 / Berlin, NH / White Mts. Region


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