Introduction
- Subject: Introduction
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 96 19:35:26 MST
My first garden plants were iris. I helped my mother dig a twenty year old
bed, 8 x 8, of old, hierloom bearded iris (at tall white, and medium
blue/purple), and ended up with several hundred (it seemed) extra rhizomes,
which I put in several locations through my yard. Since i've added about
twenty other bearded cultivars, and grown several Dutch Iris varieties and a
miniature bulbous iris, too!
Our area is obviously ideal for bearded iris, judging by the stands of flags
in pastures, surrounding the foundations of long-gone homes, though I've only
seen a couple of clumps of Siberian, and don't think I've ever seen Japanese,
Louisiana, or I. cristata.
It's great to have a gardening list to talk over one of my favorite plants
with fellow gardeners. I expect to learn a lot!
Scott Corbin
Madill, OK Zone 7 (Southcentral...in the arms of Lake Texoma)
