RE: Are you an iris fan, fancier or fanatic?

Actually we are just planting the farthest from the
house until we can get construction finished. I don't
want backhoes running over plants. So far Deer and
Groundhogs have left all the plants alone.

--- Mark.Maureen@fin.gc.ca wrote:

> Bob, you get 200 bonus points.  LOL.  That is way
> beyond fanatic!  I
> didn't know you were planting before building!  I
> hope you at least had
> the plans for your house so that you could plan your
> beds.
> 
> Maureen 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-iris@hort.net
> [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Robt
> R Pries
> Sent: August 10, 2007 9:19 AM
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [iris] Are you an iris fan, fancier or
> fanatic?
> 
> I could add my own experience to this. I bought the
> new land before selling my house and began planting
> before ground is broken for the new house. I still
> ordered new Iris even though they have to go into
> pots
> so they can be moved to the new house when it is
> built. Only complications is I now have two gardens
> 900 miles apart a long way to transfer pollen in
> hybridizing a flower.
> 
> --- Mark.Maureen@fin.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> > 5 bonus points if you sell your house conditional
> on
> > being able to come
> > back to take pieces of irises.
> > 10 bonus points if you pot up your irises in
> > anticipation of selling
> > your house.
> > 20 bonus points if you time the sale of your house
> > so that you can dig
> > and take your irises with you.
> > 100 bonus points if you turn down a premium for an
> > earlier close date
> > because it interferes with your hybridizing.
> > 
> > Maureen Mark
> > Ottawa, Ontario
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-iris@hort.net
> > [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
> > SDAyres2@aol.com
> > Sent: August 10, 2007 12:49 AM
> > To: iris@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [iris] Are you an iris fan, fancier
> or
> > fanatic?
> > 
> > In a message dated 8/8/2007 10:06:00 P.M. Mountain
> > Daylight Time,  
> > jac@labdude.com writes:
> > 
> > You are  an iris fan when you are pleased the
> house
> > you want to buy 
> > has some old  irises in the garden.
> > You are an iris fancier when an essential
> > requirement  of a new house 
> > is that the garden have large sunny areas in which
> > to plant  your iris 
> > collection.
> > You are an iris fanatic when the most essential 
> > requirement of a new 
> > house is that it have acres of land attached for
> > your  iris seedlings.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We are the same the world over!
> >  
> > An addition to "Houses" can be:
> >  
> > You are an iris fanatic if you will only sell your
> > existing house and
> > garden 
> > to someone who can take care of them properly.
> >  
> > Scarlett
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> >
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