RE: garden merit

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El,

Your garden is more important to us in Alaska and probably other high prairie and Rocky Mountain areas than most.

In Alaska we have so few climatic contemporaries in the garden world that a garden like yours, with all of the documentation, is EXCITING!!!!  I have been thinking about how I could get to see your garden!

Paul, 

I would love to have an iris test garden up here.   I, however, live on a city lot and am already gardening on four other neighbors’ lots (with maybe a fifth coming on???)  I am sometimes called the “iris lady” (when I am not called the “rose lady” or “plant crazy”).  I was asked again a few days ago when I was going to organize an iris study group.   So, maybe collectively we could get something organized in the future.  We may be able to partition the Alaska Botanical Garden (a fairly new development) for some space????

The AGM (Award of Garden Merit) criteria listed at the bottom of this message:  now that would be a goal worth striving for in iris and other plants.

Debbie

Anchorage, Alaska

Winter returned yesterday with 6” of snow. Hopefully it will stay until April.