Re: RE: Cult-Dogs and cats and DALLAS!

Hi, Dennis.  I don't  to whom you were sending your message about dogs and 
cats.  We have a strict dog-off-leash here in this area, but before that 
there was a person who walked her French poodle by my house several times a 
day and I had 2 huge pansy plots in those days (about 50 in each) and   
he/she fancied  one in particular and "watered" it so frequently that the 
difference in  pansy-health was very obvious.  So one day I called out to her 
to take her dog home for its "activities" and never "darken my " garden 
again!  She was a little startled --- and so was I when  some years later she 
became a member of our Iris Society!  She never mentioned the aforementioned 
incident and neither did I - and we became friends.  Another time I was 
planting bulbs etc (using bonemeal) and I looked behind me and found a dog 
digging them up as fast as I was plantingI  That was when I fenced in my 
backyard - with a 5' Anchor Fence.  However it does not keep out some cats 
(mine is strictly a housecat) NOR squirrels, which are the bane of my 
existence in that they dig up certain irises (they seem to have a preference 
- one I have replanted 6 times -- and finally moved it.)  and I have had a 
fox once!  also a deer!  thankfully only once! and I must find that spot 
where those not-Easter bunnies get in!
   This was the last iris-talk email on myh monster before I left for the 
Dallas meeting and our lord and master of e-talk John , very kindly cut mine 
off because I both forgot and didn't know how - now I'm waiting to be put 
back on!  BUT with this one from Starlord, I have learned he's in Rosamond 
and I knew he was in Calif - maybe some day he will inadvertently let drop 
what zone he is in - and maybe his last name - I THINK he is a Dennis!  I'm 
the person who likes to  project in my mind's eye what that garden's 
problems/potentials are!  and I find it very frustrating when people omit 
their state and zone which helps in this picture, but of course doesn't give 
the whole story.  It was interesting, when I added his address to the 
"address book" I   just wrote "Dennis ?" and it now heads the list -- before 
the A alphabet!!  

There is no use replying until our lord and master John remembers to 
re-instate me!          I THINK   I can write to I-talk, however, but not 
sure.   IF I can, I want to say the meeting in Dallas was wonderful as well 
as the weather, believe it or not!    Someone said, "No one would believe 
that we were cold in Texas"    But I found it delightfully cool, just my kind 
of weather -- and it rained only at night - I'm sure that is because at the 
last minute I grabbed my red slicker, which I didn't use until I landed 
yesterday at the BWI airport here iin Baltimore!       And the irises, for 
the most part did very well!  Different ones were  better in some gardens 
than others .  Hooker's LAS VEGAS WEEKEND won the President's Cup and PENNY 
LANE (Larry Lauer's) won the Franklin Cup - both well deserved.     Rosalie 
nr Baltimore, USA    zone 7   ryfigge@aol.com 

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