RE: Mapping

Hi Donna,

I have tried a couple of different methods of mapping and I think this may
bring up some good ideas.

I have very simple beds just rectangles.  So numbering is simple but I have
not been happy with the different methods and I am ready to try something new.
More workable.

You mentioned a master list.  I have one too as a table.  I can then sort for
whatever I want to see together on a specific day.  Like if I am contemplating
buy from a certain garden or a certain name or size or.  This all makes the
outcome easier even though building the original document is a lot of computer
work.  You know the night or morning you can't sleep or if it rains to hard
for my dog 'Rex' and I to go for a walk or if I just need some down time.  I
have just over 600 different Iris in my yard.  I use Preen every month to keep
the weeds down, and I use Bayers White Grub Control to keep the Borers dead.
The trees seem to grow well in my garden though. I also go through the
description and make all the colors for the Standards and Falls Capitals and
the beards small letters.  Then I can search for a specific color beard if I
want too. (Don't tell anyone but I have three computers and I work at one all
day at work.  Love working with the computer)

My list goes like this.

From    Hybridizer    Loc    name                        size   time
Description
Bloom & size
Rogers    Keppel    c1a    Fashion Statement    TB 1997            Standards
and style arms lightly Greyed Rosy Lilac Falls slightly    M 36
                                                                             
                        paler and Pinker Pallid Lilac in center, hafts shaded
Sunset beards
                                                                             
                       flamingo ruffled.

And finally because I have a digital camera I add a picture to the file under
the name.  Small but if needed I can enlarge it.   Then when I label my Iris
in the garden I put the name and the TB or IB or whatever on the marker I look
at every time I check a specific Iris.  This allows me to relate the size to
the name and help me to memorize the same.

I have slowly built this file over the years and I pull the ones I get rid of,
Ha Ha.  Actually I did remove about a dozen this year.  I put them in another
file so I can review them and perhaps replace them at another date.  Also,
keeps me from re purchasing if I already had the Iris and got rid of it. :)

I use this list when I dig for my sale.  I do a cut and paste of each Iris I
have dug, Pre determine the height of the row and make on row for each Iris
that is for sale.  I sell out everything in a day.  They have the picture and
the information right on the Rhizome.

Questions?  Sure!

Char New Berlin, WI

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