sometimes reticulatae iris do this, suggestions are lack of water at a critical moment but that seems improbable from my experiance. I should be glad of an answer to this conundrum too. Peter (UK) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Brian Whyer <brian.whyer@btinternet.com>wrote: > But as each flower has tried to emerge a twisted up bud has very slowly > made its way half out, never acftually opening before giving up the > struggle. > > Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, zone ~8 ish > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >