Carol Warner @ PIDS
- Subject: Carol Warner @ PIDS
- From: I*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 13:34:57 MST
Good Morning!
A bunch of use hardcare WNY iris folks took a sliding trip to Pittsburgh PA
yesterday to hear Carol Warner speak. Carol is a favorite here...she is an
excellent speaker, good judges clinic trainer, grand beardless iris grower...
and a good person besides. The weather could have been better...but it was
worth the trip to hear Carol and enjoy her slides. I saw a slide of the
Shimizu JI that is being introduced by the Iris Pond 'REISYUN' - a graceful
3-petal true pink and I've been obsessing ever since. Clarence - do you
still have stock? If the answer is 'yes', please put my name on one and my
check will be in the mail! I have still not received a Stockton catalog...
Carol makes a big point of plant vigor and appearance. In fact, she has put
her personal rating system in the catalog for siberians. I wondered if she
would catch flak for that, but she says it's been well received.
One thing I found interesting...Carol preaches NOT planting beardless irises
directly into the garden, but rather, potting them up first, then sitting
them in a child's wading pool in an inch or so of water, until they establish
roots. She then dumps the entire thing - dirt and all, into the ground. I
have learned from hard experience that fall planted sibs and JIs are more or
less doomed here...so I pot them as well. I mulch everthing down in a
protected spot for the winter...then plant the next spring. Plants received
in the spring don't seem to need this treatment.
Carol was NOT 'preaching to the choir'. The PIDS group (Pittsburgh Iris and
Daylily Society) seems to be MAINLY daylily folk....but she is savvy enough
to emphasize how well the beardless iris fit in with daylilies - and people
were vigorously taking notes!
The marquee screen saver on my work computer says 'HURRY SPRING'.
Kathy Guest - East Aurora, NY - USA, planet earth.
