Re: OT-BIO: Ruth Vreeland
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-BIO: Ruth Vreeland
- From: I* T* G*
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:42:54 -0700
We have a variety called Angie Quadros in our garden. Could this be one of
Carl Quadors's varieties. If you are missing some of his varieties and
would like to see if any of us have some of these varieties, please e-mail
us and I will check our list. We have about 2600 varieties in our garden
and some of them are quite old.
Good luck on your search.
Jim Leifer
IRIS TEST GARDEN
Jim & Janet Leifer Family
1102 Endicott - St. John Rd.
St. John, WA 99171
iristg.com
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] OT-BIO: Ruth Vreeland
> Hi everyone! I am a 41-yr. old mother of three, living in Albuquerque,
> New Mexico, and I have been growing iris, and collecting more
> (annually) since 1989 when my Grandmother died and left all of her
> beautiful hybrids to her children and grandchildren. I've even begun
> to try my hand at a little hybridizing myself.
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> My Grandmother, Margaret was married to Carl Quadros (a pretty renowned
> hybridizer in California) in the mid-eighties before he died, so most
> of what we as a family inherited were his hybrids, as well as others he
> collected. I will be posting another message very soon regarding some
> of the hybrids that we know to be in existence, but which we can't
> locate. If you can help us out with this, we'd appreciate it more than
> words can say, as these are our family heirloom, so to speak.
>
> I love these iris as if they were my babies (and even my husband and
> kids know that sometimes the iris come first!) I photograph them
> constantly and have a collection now of very clear close-ups of the
> nearly 200 varieties that I have planted in my yard. I have also
> painted some of them, as I'm a fine-artist. . . awaiting the day when I
> can retire from my job and just paint iris all day. . . every day.
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> It's nice to be involved in an-e-group like this! I already feel at
> home just knowing you're all as crazy about these beautiful things as I
> am!
>
> - Ruth Vreeland
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