Introduction
- Subject: Introduction
- From: t*@Rt66.com (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 96 12:38:12 MST
Hi. Since I suggested introductions, I suppose I'm obliged
to provide one for myself.
I got actively interested in irises as a teenager, at one
point having about 1300 different varieties in out backyard
(my mother was very tolerant!) I started breeding them,
getting involved in iris societies, and so on.
Then my education and career got in the way for a few years,
as I traveled from place to place and was forced to lead
a gardenless life.
About three and a half years ago, my wife and I "settled
down" here in northern New Mexico, and I started a garden
again. We're renting and have very limited space, so the
irises now number less than 200. We're in the mountains,
so even though people thinking of New Mexico as hot and
dry, my garden is in Zone 6a, and the last frost comes in
mid-May here. The tall bearded irises bloom in June.
I grow _all kinds_ of irises (space permitting), and lots
of other ornamental plants too.
I'm currently the yearbook editor and acting president
of the Aril Society International (empahsis on *acting*),
an iris society devoted to the exotic aril species of
the Middle East and their hybrids.
If you have access to the world wide web, you can learn
much more about me than you could possible want or need
to. (The URL is in my signature.)
Thanks to everyone who's already subscribed to the list.
We seem to be getting off to a great start. I must admit
that it was a little scary at first ("What if they had
a mailing list, and nobody came?").
Best wishes and happy irising, Tom.
Tom Tadfor Little at Telperion Productions
Los Alamos, NM
telp@Rt66.com - - - also at tlittle@lanl.gov
--> on the web at http://www.rt66.com/~telp/
