Re: Bed Preperation/Harley iris growers


>Have you heard of J.C. Raulston?  He is a famous and VERY FUNNY
>horticulturists from Raleigh and Sharon will especially enjoy this little
>story about him:
>
>He spoke to a Rock Garden study weekend group as a dinner speaker in Seattle
>awhile back. He stepped up to the podium to give his talk and in a great
>flamboyant gesture flared open his sport coat and said, "Read my Shirt!"
>
>Instead of a shirt and tie, he was wearing a Harley Davidson Logo T-shirt!
>
>He went on to call rock gardeners "horticultural deviants" who persist in
>growing outlandishly difficult and unusual plants.  "If the usual color is
>white, you want a blue one, if it is normally blue, then OF COURSE you MUST
>have the white form...."
>Best Wishes, Louise

Louise,

I think that Harleys and irises are two of the same cloth: gorgeous colors,
beautiful lines,  good weather brings them out, and the neatest people are
drawn to them.  I have a good friend (male) who rides, who used to come to
see me just to see the irises when they bloomed.   As a "macho guy" he would
no more admit that than jump over the grand canyon, but he always took some
blooms home.  The humor and dedication of Harley and iris folks are awful
close.  What a convention THAT one would be... for both!

Just the info I have learned here has been worth it, but the humor is what
life goes by on.  Thanks for tolerating me.
Sharon A. Ruck,  the herb and Harley Davidson lady
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