Oh Tom, I'm so sorry you're losing blooms to -- freezing weather? We were at 98 yesterday and I had a lot of blooms wilt, unfortunately. It's either one extreme or the other lately! And we're supposed to go down to the 70's by tomorrow, and maybe even the 60's. All I know is, I spent a good portion of the last three days either here at the computer, trying to post pictures here and in the ATP and Irises Cubit's databases -- or outside hand watering just about everything.
The one that totally impresses me is SPECTACLE -- I believe it was a bonus plant from Joe Ghio, and it seems like it just popped up out of nowhere and is a big, beautiful, elegant flower -- the stalk was tall too. I think this fluctuating weather has produced more than my normal amount of tall stalks this season -- I used all my stakes early on and had to leave some to lean over, and that has never happened before.
