Re: HYB: Using good plants

In a message dated 5/29/03 6:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
judyhunt1@bellsouth.net writes:

> What
> might help in letting the general public know what grows well in a
> particular area would be having official iris display gardens in each AIS
> region, much as the American Hemerocallis Society does.  These gardens are
> privately owned and are given official status after applying to the AHS.  

Hi Judy, 

Regional test gardens were tried a number of years ago because it sounded 
like a good idea.  Unfortunately, these gardens were abandoned because neither 
the public nor AIS members and judges visited them.  My garden is listed as a 
Dwarf Iris Display Garden, a Median Iris Display Garden and a Siberian Iris 
Display Garden.  I can hardly drag area judges to the garden during their bloom 
seasons, let alone other people.  Our public iris display garden in a city park 
gets some visitors and a few of them express real interest in the irises.  
Most just walk through and say how pretty they are.

Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zones 5/6

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