Re: OT-BIO Laurie


Hi Laurie

Welcome to the list.
Your irises sound lovely, youu'll have everyone within driving distance
coming over to check them out. Any interest in breeding yoursellf?

Colleen Modra
South Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: laurie mikita <firefly@lisco.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, 14 April 2000 11:24
Subject: [iris-talk] OT-BIO Laurie


> Hello everyone.My name is Laurie. a mother to 2 and grandmother to one.We
live in Iowa where our TB Irises are about  6-8 inches tall now.I have a
story about how i recieved some of the most beautiful TB Irises i have ever
saw. One day i was looking in our Daily shopper and there was an ad FREE
IRIS`S that caught my eye. I called about them ,figuring someone had
probally gotten them already. Well they hadn`t so my daughter and i jumped
in the car and drove into town. This little elderly man came out with 2
large dog food bags just full of roots. He told me i was the only one to
call about them to take them all. I ask him if he was sure i really didn`t
want to be greedy,He said yes take them all. So we did. We took them home
and planted them as we were doing so a gentleman friend had stop  and ask
where we had gotten the TB Irises and i told him, he preced to tell me this
gentle man had bred corn for alocal company for years and he bred his own TB
Irises.The first year they bl!
>oomed they were the hugest most beautiful TB Irises i had ever saw in every
color imaginable. This gentleman has since passed away but his Irises bloom
every year large and beautiful.And every year i  give thanks to him for his
gift  to us.Thank you Laurie
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