Last year, it opened on August 13. The bud was up on Saturday and it opened on Sunday. And there’s another bud coming up.
The other 2 don’t have any buds and I decided they were too crowded in their shared pot. Man! They were root bound!
I have cut them apart and replanted them in separate pots with good soil around their abused roots. I’m thinking that I’ll lift all 3 of them out of their pots when they’re dormant this Fall and set them down to free range in the bottom to see how that goes.
I would love to see the purple ‘Almost Black’ and white ‘Virginiana’ blooming along with this ‘Madama Wilfron Gonnere’.
I have a couple of odd irises. The orange one is called a blackberry lily and the red one is a tigridia. A friend gave me the blackberry lily and I bought the tigridia.
Red tigridia and orange blackberry lilies
I was surprised to learn that they are both in the iris family. The common names for them don’t indicate that.
The tigridia has been an exercise in frustration. I ordered 20 bulbs and planted 10 on each side of the front stoop. When they’d been in the ground for about 3 weeks, I accidentally dug one up and there was NO growth. Not even rootlets. It looked like a dried up knot of nothing. And the vendor had been nagging me to review my purchase. So, I did. About a week later, I got an email from customer service telling me I needed to be patient. Same to you, buddy.
The day before yesterday, a month after that email, I spotted something red in the bed. It was a tigridia. There is a single plant on the left side bed that is blooming. The solitary bulb that has come up on the right side has no buds yet.
Since they have come up, I am hopeful that I will eventually have many. But, I am a little frustrated and a little annoyed that I paid $20 (price plus shipping) for 2 bulbs. I have paid more than that for other plants. But, I have done it knowing that was the price.
I wrote them back and told them the outcome. I tried to log in to modify my review. But, the link to do that doesn’t work.
The bulbs I left in the ground have not come back up. I bought the bulbs from Blue Buddha Farms.
This one started coming up inside after a surprisingly short period of dormancy. Since it is so lush, we’ve left it inside.
‘Strawberry Star’ caladiums
The mostly white one slowly started back around the end of February. And it has done well outside. I’ll bring it in when nighttime temps start to stay around 50°F.
‘White Star’ and ‘Florida Sweetheart’
The mostly red one just came up recently. Like…. This week. I thought it was not going to.
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