CLUBS: Was--Re: Free Irises!!
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- Subject: CLUBS: Was--Re: Free Irises!!
- From: G* S* <g*@loop.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:17:13 -0700 (MST)
CEMahan@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> Reference your comment about spending lots of money on new introductions, I
> wonder if some of the new members of the iris list, or non-AIS members of the
> list know that many local iris societies have a "plant buying scheme." They
> ask which local members are willing to grow "guest irises" purchased by the
> local club. Then they order newly introduced irises from various iris
> nurseries, and give them to the local members to grow. In two years, the
> people growing these keep one of the increases and bring the rest to a club
> iris auction. That way the club members get some free irises and some other
> irises at auction for less then they would sell retail---usually considerably
> less. The club gets the proceeds for the auction (some of which can be used
> to buy more new irises.
Our club (San Fernando Valley I S) does it a little differently. The
club buys
$500-600 of new iris (and gets _generous_ extras from most places) for
our
annual auction. The most coveted cultivars get almost retail price (and
the
buyer misses out on the extras the introducing garden would have given),
and
others are real bargains. Two or three years later the club usually gets
a
couple rhizomes back for the auction (along with increases from iris
purchased
elsewhere, of course).
Our system works well, but I can see definite advantages to what
Clarence suggests.
Gerry, whose Desert Echo, Orange Popsicle, Double Banded, Tiger Shark,
Carnival Magic, and I. versicolor have joined others mentioned
previously as being in bloom
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Warm, winterless Los Angeles
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