Re: OT-BIO : Paul Tyerman
- Subject: Re: OT-BIO : Paul Tyerman
- From: M* M*
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:18:05 -0500
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Welcome back, Paul. Our garden beds are still under four feet of snow. But
the catalogues are arriving! How much do first-borns go for these days?
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
> ----------
> From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman[SMTP:tyerman@dynamite.com.au]
> Reply To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 6:57 AM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT-BIO : Paul Tyerman
>
> From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>
>
> Howdy All,
> As I've been gone for a while I thought it worthwhile sending
> another OT BIO.
>
> My name is Paul Tyerman. I live in Canberra, Australia. I am
> somewhat
> interested in irises and have a reasonable collection of TB, Arilbred, SA,
> MED, Dwarf, Louisianna, JAP, Spuria and Species Iris.
> I run a garden maintenance and plant sales business and have my
> irises
> spread over 5 properties (I rent back yards for my plants as I do not have
> space at home). I dabble a VERY small amount in breeding, but really just
> plain don't have the time anymore. Sigh!
>
> Canberra is fairly cold by Asutralian Standards but pretty pathetic
> by
> most Northern Hemisphere Standards. We get down to -8'C most years which
> is pretty much on the cold side for Australia (For reference in case you
> don't know Australia does not even have permanent Snow (although patches
> survive Summer in the Winter..... it could hardly be called permanent
> Snow).
>
> Summer temps to around 40'C and quite hot and dry. Winters are cold
> and
> wet. Minimum day-time temperature extreme is around 6'C.
>
> Ummmmm.... what else to say? Married for 3 years, no kids (unless
> you
> count our two dogs... if you can call them that... I think "Kids" suits
> them better actually). Could really do with some more money (couldn't
> just
> about everyone)as I spend far to much on plants. Who needs to eat when
> you
> can buy plants?????
>
> Thats about it. Many of you will already know me so to you all
> Howdy!!!!
> It will be good to be back. I think you guys are just starting into
> Spring
> over there in the US aren't you? The I. reticulatas flowering yet?
>
> Cheers everyone.
>
> Regards. Paul Tyerman
> Canberra, Australia
>
>
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