Re: Jan Elizabeth

Laurie:
   JAN ELIZABETH is just so beautiful. I'm such a sucker for old 
fashioned pinks! Are most of your iris first year?  
You mentioned you did not know whether she would be back again next 
year. Do you find that alot of them fail to survive after first year 
growth? Or just fail to bloom?  Or that pinks are more finicky?

Laetitia

 
--- In iris-photos@y..., laurief <laurief@p...> wrote:
> JAN ELIZABETH (Tell Muhlestein, 1959) TB historic
> 
> This is an exceptionally meaningful and important iris in my 
garden.  She 
> carries the name of my next older sister, Janet Elizabeth, who died 
of 
> SIDS at 6 mos of age a couple years before my birth.  I have always 
> missed having Janet as a physical presence in my life, and now she 
grows 
> in my garden.  I also grow LAURIE, and they both bloomed this 
year.  The 
> parallels amaze me. JE was introduced into the world a few years 
before 
> LAURIE, LAURIE didn't start blooming until right after JE had 
finished, 
> and JE has grown very little in her first year (unlike LAURIE, who 
is far 
> more vigorous).  It will break my heart if JAN ELIZABETH cannot 
thrive in 
> my garden, but if it is her destiny to make only a brief return 
into our 
> family every 50 yrs, so be it.  It was such a joy to finally be 
able to 
> put a face to my sister's name.
> 
> 
> -----------------
> laurief@p...
> http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
> zone 3b northern MN - clay soil


 

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