Tall Irises flopping over - Remedy ?
The Silent Seed (Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:25:43 PDT)

PS,
And that was just a one-time event. Ah well!
I do not use any food/fertilizer/chemicals - so I'll just continue to enjoy
them in their usual blooming season which is right now.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:24 PM, The Silent Seed <tylus.seklos@gmail.com>
wrote:

Thanks! I had no idea that this was a known "thing" - personally, it won't
stop me from buying pretty colored ones - because I can always stake them.
I was just curious why it was happening - now it all makes sense!

As for reblooming - I had no idea it was dependent upon region - that's
quite interesting. They are always very happy, very healthy, just not
reblooming - again, this doesn't bother me too much - because I basically
don't expect it - so if it was to happen, that would be a bonus.

It'll be interesting to see if any are "reliably" reblooming in the New
England region.

The only one that has ever rebloomed for me is "Immortality."

Thanks again for the input!

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:11 PM, , <theladygardens@aol.com> wrote:

Buy from reputable hybridizers. Reputable known hybridizers do not
introduce iris that flop over. Ghio and Keppel destroy thousands of
beautiful iris just because they do things like that. For re=bloomers, it
is best to keep them in the same area so you can continue watering them
after the first bloom. Giving them a little bit of fertilizer after first
bloom isn't necessary but doesn't hurt. Ghio doesn't introduce his as RE
because they rebloom here but not reliably other places. There are two
hybridizers, I know of, who have a few that rebloom in the east or
mid=west, Sutton and Commanche Acres. Carolyn

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From: The Silent Seed <tylus.seklos@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2016 10:54 am
Subject: [pbs] Tall Irises flopping over - Remedy ?

Is there an obvious reason that some, but not most, Tall Bearded Irises in
(the same) garden would flop over (flowering stalks)? And, is there a
quick
and easy method to avoid this - other than staking?

Also - what's the best way to get rebloomers to rebloom? I have a lot of
rebloomers that do not rebloom when left alone.

Thanks! Jude

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