Re: Iris Pond orders/CIS booth/MDB's
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Iris Pond orders/CIS booth/MDB's
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:21:48 -0700 (MST)
SCHAFFCM@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU wrote:
>
> First --> My order from Iris Pond (C E MAHAN'S operation) was FIRST CLASS!!
> And so was that of everyone I know who EVER ordered from him. EVER!!
>
> Second --> I went to Mississauga, Ontario to the Flower Show at the International Centre and visited the Canadian Iris Society's booth and saw Chris Hollinsheadand his sons, Shawn and ? (Shawn walked around with us a bit..)
>
> A wonderful booth! Great photos on the backdrop. Lots of information and
> Iris folks to talk to the passersby. And the place was crowded.
>
> Visiting the show brought lots of ideas for WNYIS's booth at the upcoming
> Flower Show in Niagara Falls, NY April 11 to 13, '97.
>
> And lots of ideas about tools, composting, organic gardening, books, plants,
> furniture. I bought a hedgehog ornament!! I hear they devour slugs and
> Cathy Boyko knows where to get the real thing and how to take care of them!
>
> Third --> about a third of the MDB's I put in last year will not make
> it/have not made it. I'm thinking I need a special bed for the first year
> or so in a different spot. I'm thinking that the reason they didn't make
> it is not snow, but frost andheaving in this winter with no snow cover most
> of the time.
>
> But that's all the gardening I can do right now -- the thinking part.
>
> Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
Hi Caolyn -- I take it that Iris Pond is a nursery,and since you
arehappy with your order, would you share the address with me/us?
Thanks
Rima terra@catskill.net
