Re: Slumming in the Discount Stores for Irises

Hi Donald!
     You write (2 March 97):
> 
> I've read with great interest the chastisement of a member of the IRIS-L
> for purchasing iris rhizomes at Wal-Mart discount stores.  I'm assuming
> that this was all in jest and good rib-poking humor.  For what I am about
> to admit, I am sure that I will suffer mercilessly at the hands of those
> who shop at the better places for their irises.:)  (For the record, most
of
> my irises have come from well respected iris growers/sources.)
> 
> I must confess that today I gave into a struggle with iris virus fever
and
> purchased two rhizomes of SNOW QUEEN (a siberian iris) at a discount
store
> named BIG LOTS.  I probably ended up paying more for these now than if
I'd
> waited until this fall and purchased them from a catalog, but I just
> couldn't help myself between the spring bug and my chronic iris virus.
> Also I've been wanting SNOW QUEEN ever since I saw it blooming in
Clarence
> Mahan's garden.  I remembered that it looked so elegant, yet understated.

I obtained my SNOW QUEEN from a similar source seven years ago this month.
She was a little slow settling in (didn't bloom until the 2nd Spring after
I planted her), but since then she's done just fine - won blue ribbons at
the local Iris Show and multiplied bountifully so that I now have her
planted in four different locations and have shared her with anyone who
would give her a good home.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah (Zone 4)
cwalters@cache.net
"This is the Place" - Speaking of snow, 3 more inches has fallen here so
far this evening.
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