Re: $$/new intros/survival? (was Convention Matchmakers (NO

Linda Mann wrote about her bad experiences with growth (survival?) of 
Edith Wolford.  It is comforting, in a perverse sort of way, I 
suppose, to know that I'm not the only one who has had trouble with 
that iris.  I think it is a beautiful flower, which is why I keep 
trying to make it grow in the harsh winter conditions of NW Iowa, but 
I am coming to the conclusion that its California breeding has taken 
all the hardiness out of it.  The same thing applies to most of Keith 
Keppel's stuff:  gorgeous flowers, things I see in catalogues but 
have learned to pass up because it doesn't do well here.  That has 
been the experience of other growers in this area, too, including 
people who've been at the iris game a lot longer than I.  I question 
whether such plants, like Edith Wolford, however much we may admire 
them in gardens farther south, should be given a Dykes medal.

Arnie Koekkoek-zone 4
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