By Hooker Nichols
This past
spring here in north Texas was very cool and rainy. Our median bloom was about
three weeks early beginning in early March.
All four of the median classes were well represented and the season was
very long. Our season for bearded and
beardless bloom ended before the last week of April.
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| Donald Spoon's reblooming 'Alberta Peach' |
Around May
20th, we noticed that many of the median irises with reblooming
traits were sending up more stalks and consequently several of the clumps put
on a better show than four to five weeks previously. The once blooming medians did not put up
hardly any repeat stalks.
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| Hooker Nichol's reblooming Border Bearded 'Lenora Pearl' |
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| Mike Sutton's reblooming IB 'Mulligan' |
Those
medians from the East and West coasts put on equal performances.
Several medians with reblooming tendencies
introduced from Canada were well represented too.
Iris growers should check the Reblooming Iris
Society annual symposium results to see with reblooming medians perform best in
their particular areas.
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Chuck Chapman's reblooming SDB 'Autumn Jester'
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It should be
noted that we had heavily fertilized our irises last fall and this spring.
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| Terry Aitken's reblooming IB 'August Treat' |
