Vickie, even with almost no care, they bloom anyway! Low maintenance!
Interesting, Zoia. I've had similar experience with those greenhouse-grown leeks this year! Scapes up in record time and then rebloom sort of erratic, often delayed, like the plants needed to work on establishing new roots first. Angel on A Cloud just started reblooming. Several of these would normally have instantly rebloomed here. So in New England you would only get round 1, and I bet it's a combination of a shorter growing season and fewer reserves. Thinking about what they experience: not-leek reserves, later start in spring, more effort to regrow from the ground up after full dormancy, cooler summer (maybe), shorter growing season with earlier frost... They do well to put on a single show. But it will be interesting to see how rebloom evolves. I dream of the deep south getting 4 or 5 rounds, the midsection getting 3 and surely the north getting 2. And slower increase (with all that blooming) so we don't have to divide as often!
Angel On a Cloud at the end of August, first scape. Rebloom started Oct 9th, with darker purple because of cooler weather.
