OT: Visiting Talker

From: "Sterling Okase" <sterling_o@hotmail.com>

Hi Talkers,

I just had a visitor today. Our recent Iris Talk member Miriam Dyak came 
by to visit. She is the one that has been interested in finding other 
perrenials that will bloom before and after the irises so she can have 
color all year long. What a nice lady she is. She told her husband she 
was going off to meet a "maniac" she met on the "Web". I am sure he was 
very worried.

 We live on opposite ends of town but she came into the city to do some 
shopping and dropped by for a visit. Wouldn't you know...we have had 
such beautiful weather all week long and the day she decides to 
visit....RAIN!!! It rained off and on all day today. Not good if you 
want to stand around in the garden and shoot the breeze. But we did 
briefly anyway.

At the moment, part of my garden is torn up because the neighbors 
decided this was the weekend that they were going to erect a fence 
between our properties so I had to move a bunch of trees, plants and a 
few rocks out of their way. The garden is a mess but Miriam didn't seem 
to mind. She said she thought my garden was beautiful anyway. She was 
however, amused to say the least that I can cram that many irises (about 
400 different varieties) and seedlings into such a tiny city lot.

Several things caught her attention. Picotee begonias, heucheras, I. 
unguicularis and a clump of variegated leaf I. foetidissima. She taught 
me that you can eat begonia petals. She puts them on salads...very TART!  
Also amusing to her were my stalks of pods with tags dancing in the 
rain. She sounded very interested in growing iris seeds. We may have a 
budding hybridizer on our hands.

The visit was short since there were no irises to see at the moment but 
come spring time I am sure her visit will be longer. Since she was 
interested in things that bloom before and after the TBs, I gave her her 
very first dwarf varieties. She went home with Bedford Lilac, Stinger, 
Stardate, First Romance and Pipestone, all SDBs to extend her bloom 
season.

I had a great day today!

Iris Maniac,
Sterling (not Innerst)
Seattle, WA. Zone 8
AIS, KCIS, HIPS and MIS
sterling_o@hotmail.com


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