OT-Bio Arlene

Hi!  I just joined this list.  I live in El Paso, TX since 1979.  We are 
orginally from Wis.  3 Children are grown and have moved away.  We raise and 
show Bichon Frise Dogs.  Gardening here is quite different from what i was 
used to.  I was given some yellow iris plants (name?) many years ago and 
they have mulitplied.  We have a backyard planter along the stone wall.  It 
is 2ft high and about 2ft from front to back. I have iris growing in there. 
Some years I get lots of flowers and some years little.
We just added another rock planter along the back wall with same dimensions. 
I planted yellow iris in there also.  We also have a courtyard with an 8 ft 
wall surrounding it and it faces South.  Again mainly the same iris planted 
there plus assortment of annual flowers.  A bout 6years ago while in Wi I 
picked up some packaged iris bulbs.  After about 3yrs, (I planted them in a 
big pot) they finally bloomed. It was a bearded iris that was a blueish 
lavender color.  Last year was 3rd year of blooming but I noticed the color 
had changed.  I had planted some other iris in 2 big pots and they took a 
couple of years to bloom also and they were gorgeous to me.  I took lots of 
pictures of them.  They were bearded iris also.  While on vacation in Wi in 
June, I stopped at a garden center and I ended up buying 8 iris plants.
A standard dwarf White by Gardeners Choice    a bearded dwarf called Cherry 
Garden by Gardeners Choice,  a reblooming bearded by Holland called 
Immortality (White),
a reblooming by Holland called Breakers in med blue,  a fragrant bearded by 
Holland called Superstition (black) and 2 other bearded ones.  I lost those 
two to rot (I think) when I tried to divide them and give half to my 
brother.
I may have grown plain iris here for 20years but I know very little about 
them.  It's been just plain luck.  Wish we had an Iris society here.  Hope I 
can learn about the different iris I just bought.
Bichonly,   Arlene & Krystal K Bichon Frise in El Paso, TX
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