Re: Guessing iris names-Sales


Anner wrote:

>Bill Smoot once offered a suggestion that I thought was rather elegant. Bag
>up the unknowns in usable quantities, say a dozen rhizomes, price them cheap,
>and sell them as LANDSCAPE IRISES---MIXED COLORS. 
**
I like this idea, but I'd like to offer a friendly amendment, to call them
Tall Bearded Irises--mixed colors (if we know that much about them).

If the buyer wants to pursue instructions on care or to learn something
about the distinctions between types of irises, we have then provided
a beginning point.  Actually, if I bought a bag of landscape irises, I'd 
expect to find Siberians (in areas where these grow well), or maybe 
some of the beardeds on the inside cover of the AIS Bulletin developed 
by Don and Ginny Spoon with that goal in mind.       --Jim

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Jim Wilson, Oxford, OH, USDA Zone 6a, AIS garden judge, Region 6
growing medians, TBs, Siberians, JIs, and a few SPU and species
wilsonjh@one.net    http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~wilsonjh



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