Percentage wise, I didn't have too many. Had a lot more last year when Hubby got a little carried away spraying the fence line above the garden. He is not allowed to spray until AFTER bloom time anymore.
This guy is playing a little shell game - hiding his missing parts while showing off the one half standard/half fall.
Then you peer around the other side and get a face to face with the best little "sideburn" a boy like Elvis Dreamer can grow!
I got one for the money (I fall), two for the show (2 beards), three to get ready ( 3 falls), and go cat go.... I guess this is what happens when you step on his blue suede shoes!
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black
Thought I was going to be left out of the weirdo bunch this year. LOL... So here I go ....gonna get my freak on. Triple Dragon has a flopper bud. Wonder what it is going to look like.
The first Iris that did this a few days ago was one I'd just planted, so I blamed it on that. But this one (I think it's Batik) has been in the ground for several years, and did the same thing on the other side of the garden. Any ideas, or should I just chalk it up to a weird weather year..?
Sorry, I took 3 pictures and auto focus didn't want to focus on the stalk... this was the best of the 3.
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I seem to always have a few "spaghetti stalks" every year.....sometimes they stay "limber, and eventually rot, and sometimes they stiffen up, make a U-turn and open a bud
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If the stalk is growing in a U shape and is still firm when you try to lift it that is a chimera. If the stalk is limp and you can lift it easily then that is something I would cut off immediately and discard.
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grannysgarden said:If the stalk is growing in a U shape and is still firm when you try to lift it that is a chimera. If the stalk is limp and you can lift it easily then that is something I would cut off immediately and discard.
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I had a few Cat's Eye that flopped, but I staked them and they bloomed just fine. I thought they were doing that because of lack of water, since they had never done it before. I also had buds that flopped on a couple of tall bearded, but I propped up the buds and they bloomed okay too. All mine flopped close to the bud like Ken's, not as far down the stem as Sherry's.
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black
Mine doesn't look like rot (yet), but the tissue has broken down, it's floppy, and it's definitely beyond hope of blooming. I had swan-necking earlier, where the stems are still stiff, but twisting off in interesting directions. Those still bloom. In this case, the buds are strangled when the stems go soft.
I'm told swan-necking is weather related. I'm hoping this might be too.
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