new web site for Iris Haven

Greetings from the Land ofOz,
 
Just a quick note to let you all know that the new web site for IRIS HAVEN should be on-line next week.  It currently runs to fifteen pages and includes a photo of just about every Louisiana Iris we have bred and released todate, plus a page of "future developments" which showcase the ones that are online for release up to 2000.  We also have dedicated a page to ISA details (including addresses to contact the various regions), the Sydney Louisiana Iris Spectacular competition and I am currently working on the "links to other sites" page.  Is there anyone out there with a web site that the IRIS HAVEN one should be linked to?  I have already received an invitation to link to the Work Iris Society site and will also be linking to Rodney Barton's fascinating site on North American Native Iris, but is there someone out there that I have not discovered yet that needs to get a guernsey (try the Oxford dictionary for you non-rugby playing readers) while I am still creating the page? 
For those of you who have asked about the "Land of Oz" bit, it is a spin-off from the famous movie.  We in the land downunder often refer to living in the land of Oz from there.  I have personally taken the reference a bit further, and likened my hybridising efforts in trying to create a perfect orange Louisiana Iris as following my own "orange brick road" of hybridising hopes and dreams.  Many of the characters from the original story have featured in the names of my cultivars with "Our Dorothy" being the main character.  We have several contenders for "ruby slippers" just awaiting their third year of bloom this Spring so that we can decide which one gets that name.  I do like to attach some whimsy to my cultivars, as hybridising could otherwise become a rather dry discussion.  I hope that this answers a few questions and gives you a bit of a glimpse of the real me too (now THAT'S a worry!).
Cheers for now,
Heather Pryor   i*@pip.com.au
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