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KentPfeiffer said:I think you have misinterpreted the information on Schreiner's website. EML doesn't mean a plant is a rebloomer. It just means the plant blooms over a relatively long period in the spring. For example, an EML tall bearded iris in my garden would start blooming around the first week of May and still be in bloom towards the end of the month. To do that, a TB would need a high bud count, a slow sequence of bloom (very few flowers open at any given time), or a combination of the two.

Kent's explanation is the way I understood this as well, given the descriptions I read.
The TB might have lots of bud sockets, yet the flowers don't all happen at one time, they happen over a longer period of time than those that have several per stem that pop at once. So their bloom timeframe is prolonged in that way. That's how I read it.

I misinterpreted bloom season info LAST year, and bought some IB's for the what I thought was the same as TB season. So I make lots of mistakes.