Re: Going to Rhizome Auction
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- Subject: Re: Going to Rhizome Auction
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:53:45 -0600 (MDT)
bobdell wrote:
>
> I am going to a rhizome auction for the first
> time Saturday. Any helpful suggestions beyond
> don't scratch your ear at the wrong time? What
> kind of price range can I expect?
>
> The auction is by the local Iris Society so I
> think I can assume that all the plants offered
> will do OK here in Northeast Ohio near the lake.
>
> Do Iris have the same inverse price law my wife's
> house plants obey: "The higher the price the
> shorter the life expenctancy"?
>
> Bob Pindell
> Far eastern Cleveland suburbs lake effect zone 5
> with lots of snow in the winter
Bob -- I can't answer your last question, but can give some advice on
the first. Try to determine beforehand which irises will be auctioned.
If the auction provides -- or you have -- some catalogues, check the
catalogue prices of the irises to be auctioned. If you bid up to the
catalogue price of a rhizome, you will still save yourself the shipping
charges, and you will be money ahead.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA
jgcrump@erols.com
