RE: Source list for Iris species and cultivars

Sounds likje a very good idea. Are you looking to list plants that are hardy over a wide area or breaking it down to different climate challenges such as heat, cold, dry, wet no snow cover etc.?

Probably shoud break nominations/voting down by regions so # of voters don't overwelm such as getting a lot of votes from California and Oregon  and only a few from Canada were climate challenges are different.

Chuck Chapman  Zone 4, no snow cover and wet cold springs.


Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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>Dear Iris experts;
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>            I am sending this to several key people who might have the power to implement an idea. Most of you are probably aware of the Hardy Plant Finder, a book that lists all the hardy plants offered for sale in England and Europe during the last nine years. Serious gardeners use it to find plants which they have been looking for and the garden source that offer them. 
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>             I would like to suggest that a comparable reference limited to Iris would be useful for AIS members and for that matter other gardeners who desire specific plants. Today with computers it would seem relatively easy to create a list of irises offered for sale in the last ten years with the source nurseries. Surely most modern nurseries could provide a list of their offerings in a digital format that could be merged with other lists to provide a list of Iris in cultivation and possible sources for these. 
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>             This seems like exactly the type of thing that should be available on an AIS website if we truly wish to promote Iris. It also gives a concept of what cultivars are available or not in commerce. 
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>             Actually I am astounded that the USA is so for behind Europe and England in such matters. 
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