Re: SPEC: Surprises From the Seedling Patch
- Subject: Re: [iris] SPEC: Surprises From the Seedling Patch
- From: Gordon Nicholson i*@pacbell.net
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:49:38 -0700
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Thank you both, the writer and the re-sender for a lovely way to start off my iris
morning with a original poem!! lorraine in California, zone 9.
Jim Gibbons wrote:
> Excuse the cross-post from the species group, but thought I'd share it here as
> well:
>
> The seeds received and coddled
> from donors far away
> Are blooming for the first time
> Here's what I have to say.
>
> I got a "sanguinea", with stems quite branched and all
> "Pumila" plants both finger-size
> And up to one foot tall!
> My lovely "delavayi" I put in their own bed
> Imagine my surprise when some decided to bloom red.
>
> And maackii, oh maackii
> A clump so bright and vigorous
> And now I'm told you're really just
> a form of old pseudacorus!
>
> So now I wait, with baited breath
> Next year the show'll be bigger
> With many more surprises from
> the seeds from NARGS and SIGNA.
>
> Jim Gibbons
> Comfy in Carolina, Zone 8a and sandy....
>
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