Intro-Arizona grower
- Subject: Intro-Arizona grower
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 22:58:46 MST
Hi everyone
I've been lurking all week-decided to introduce myself
I'm fairly new to Iris growing. I live in Tucson, Arizona and started 4
years ago.
I grow 90% TB's. The fall before last I put in a dozen Spurias, followed
this past fall by another dozen. Spurias do extremely well in the desert
southwest, as do tall bearded. I'm currently growing about 300,almost all
TB's, which is about all I can comfortably grow at this time, you see, even
though I'm growing them in Tucson at my house, I work in Phoenix 120 miles
away, and only make it back to Tucson weekends. (This is only temporary-I
retire in 3 years)
My iris have slowly started to bloom, with about a dozen in various stages of
bloom or bud..
The peak in Tucson will be mid march to mid april - a far cry from May and
June in northern and eastern states.
I attended the AIS convention this past spring in York, and intend to be in
Sacramento for the AIS convention late April. .
We have active iris clubs in both Tucson and Phoenix; I'm a member of both.
My favorites: Skating Party (a huge white), Merry Madrigal, Heather Blush,
Before the Storm (my first year for this near-Black TB-it was a big 'hit' in
York last spring), and Persian Berry.
The Phoenix Iris Club (Sun Country) had a wonderful speaker this past week,
Dr. John Weiler, hybridizer of 'reblooming' iris. In case you're not aware
what they are-they are iris that generally bloom not only in spring, but at
least once more, usually summer or fallor winter, and some of the newer
reblooming iris are really spectacular. Some even bloom for months on end.
They need additional water in the summer, however, but after seeing his
slides, i'm going to place an order this summer for a 'reblooming' area of my
garden.
The Tucson Area Iris Society has it's monthly meeting Feb 10 and the speaker
is Keith Keppel, who will speak on 'The History of the Plicata Iris'. I'm
fortunate that the Phoenix meetings are on a weekday and the Tucson meetings
on a weekend-I can attend both.
Anyone else who has been lurking, this listserv has been 'up' about a week
now, introduce yourself. Thanks for reading this, i'll be looking forward to
more iris 'postings' in the weeks to come from new and existing iris
readers/contributors of this listserv.
Sam Wymer in Tucson AZ
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