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Hi,

I've been reading or rather skimming IRIS-L for the past two months and
thought I might finally introduce myself.  

I live in a teeny apartment and therefore cannot plant any iris myself but
will be purchasing about a dozen or so varieties for my sisters this year
(one a birthday present and one a housewarming present).  They will be
mainly historic varieties my mother has grown since I can remember.  She
passed away just after Christmas and we (children, grandchildren and even
in-laws and their extended families) have all renewed our interest in Mom's
favorite flower.  We are hoping to find her notes on what is planted where.
 Some of them we know by heart, but I've only been able to come up with
about 6 varieties by name and the others are illusive.  One bed never did
well (was shaded from morning and mid-day sun) and another in the center of
the yard was mowed under by my Dad (when he took over mowing from my sister
and I when we were in college) and jointly eaten up by a group of moles.
Her bed on the south side continued to do well as did the few she had
planted along the east side of the house.  

The discussion on companion plants has been very interesting.  She had
jonquils at the back of her successful bed right along the house.  She then
planted her iris and  roses.  Her roses tended to bloom a little later than
most around here.  I would recommend the jonquils but not the roses as they
took up a lot of time pruning in the fall as well as providing perhaps too
much shade.  She also had peonies, daylilies, columbine, flox and poppies;
none of which were planted with the iris for the most part.  The flox and
daylily are still fighting it out in one part of the yard and the columbine
and another daylily variety overran the entire east side of the house with
just one or two iris surviving their intrusion.    

I will sign off for now, but would like to say I am enjoying the wealth of
information provided on iris-l and generally by a lot of you at your own
web sites.

Jane DeBellis
Columbia, MO
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