Re: CULT: Iris Attrition
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Iris Attrition
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- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:06:51 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
>
> Sandy writes:
> >The database will have a minimum of four separate tables
> ><snip> most important, how and when I get rid of the cultivar in
> >question.
>
> Why, Sandy, why?
Donald,
I think the answer lies in something you alluded to in a subsequent message
- there is a certain value to having a record of whether it was the iris
that has decided to leave you or if it was you who decide to part with the
iris. At least, I have kept track of the reasons for the departure of
irises from my garden for some time.
Among the ones that recur are
Died (Translation: it died);
Unthrifty (Trans: it looked like it was going to die, and I couldn't wait
any longer);
Sickly (Trans: it was a "Typhoid Mary" providing a reservoir of infection
to which it did not succumb, but that was devastating everything around
it);
Lost (Trans: I divided and replanted it, but when it bloomed, it was
something else);
Unattractive (Trans: it certainly isn't what I expected from its
picture/description);
Undistinguished (Trans: it looks just like a dozen other blue irises I am
growing);
Outmoded (Trans: I've ordered twice as many new irises as I have room for,
so something has to go, and you're it).
With a written record, and not just memory to rely on, after several
seasons have passed by and absence makes the heart grow fonder and I wonder
why I was ever persuaded to part with dear old cultivar X, I can test that
longing against the reason for letting it go when I did.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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