RE: The commercial nursery
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- Subject: RE: The commercial nursery
- From: "* M* <I*@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:00:59 -0700 (MST)
Dana, I'm also doing the same sort of thing. Actually, I started the picture
file for the Santa Fe Iris Society as a help in identification for our shows,
but then we found it was even more useful for the rhizome sale later on. It's
true that the ones we have pictures for always sell out before any of the
others.
Barb in Santa Fe, where the Iris Society is bigger than the Rose Society (for
now).
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From: iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of Dana Brown
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 1997 9:31 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: The commercial nursery
> Dennis,
> Your right on the money. The public will always buy if they see it in bloom.
> Our iris society has an annually sale at the Missouri Botanic Gardens and
the
> first to go are the ones we have pictures of.
> Jim
I make up a picture album from photographs taken in my garden featuring
every iris I am donating to the Society for sale. That way as we try to
peddle the iris we can flip through this labeled, alphabatized album and
show pictures. If one sells out we can always look at the picture and
pick something close. It seems to have helped our sale and several of
the members are now doing the same thing.
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
