CULT: iris in foreign climates

Since we're discussing iris in foreign climes, I'm pleased to report some
relief in the concern I've been feeling about a shipment of TB and IB irises I
sent to the southeast coast of Ireland this fall.

On the advice of a professional gardener there, I sent two shipments to
friends and relatives during the first week of October.  The two groups live
about 25 miles apart in the same county.   The first group received their box
in 10 days.  The second didn't get their box (much the larger of the two)
until a full month had passed!  Besides being furious at whatever dolts in
whichever postal service had delayed delivery of the shipment, which was as
fully documented and mailed on the same day as the other,  I was quite
concerned about the ability of the plants in the second shipment to put down
roots once the weather had turned cold and rainy there, as it had.

Just before Christmas, I received a letter dated December 14 from a recipient
of some of the irises from the second shipment.  She writes as they speak in
that part of the country:  " . . . thank you for . . . the tree irises which
you sent to teresa for me. I sewed the irises the next day and they have grown
two inches. Im delighted they are growin in irish soil."   So am I, my
friends, so am I.  --  Griff

zone 7 in Virginia

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