AIS: convention

Still recovering from trip to convention, but am really glad I went.
Got to put some faces with names from cyberspace, saw thousands of
gorgeous irises, learned that my tough seedlings aren't quite as far
behind all the rest of the world as I thought, enjoyed the <wonderful>
weather (tho I know nearly everybody else hated all the  misty to rainy,
windy, cool temperatures), was pleased to see that the one iris I picked
out at Schreiners' <before> convention as having the most traits I want
to add to my kids all in one plant was selected by everybody as the best
in region (HIGH CHAPPARAL).  (so watch it die the minute it gets to 'the
vale').

Many thanks to those who put the convention together for us - lots of
complaining about this and that, but the amount of work that goes into
something like this is staggering.

Special thanks to green 12 bus captain who gave me her extra pair of new
socks on the last day of the bus tours.  Dryish feet on the trip home.

Knowing that the majority of AIS membership is my age or older, I
<thought> I might be able to keep up.  Not a chance - these  folks with
canes and various disabilities would have been leaving me in the dust if
it hadn't been so muddy.

Enjoyed touring Keppel's and Schreiners before convention with Colleen
Modra, especially evaluating Schreiner re-select seedlings.  Looking
forward to seeing that greenish-yellowish-whitish bearded black seedling
again some day.  Maybe one of these days I will recover from driving a
rental car thru Portland! ack.

Batteries were dead in my camera the first day, then I forgot to set to
lowest resolution, so ran out of space.  A few pix, but not many.

Betty, Walter Moores, and Tom Parkhill asked me to especially look for
their things.  I see now why it is so hard to take notes on particular
cultivars at convention - hard to find them in so many irises, and too
many distractions.

Betty's VANISHING ACT looked wonderful in the last garden we visited,
but with wind turning umbrellas inside out, and rain blowing sideways in
low temperatures, I doubt many folks paid it much attention.  Last row
in the last garden of the convention (for green buses).  MEMPHIS MISS
was also doing well several places.

Walter's LEMONADE SPRINGS was the wrong plant in Plotner's garden -
seems like it was a pink? - but it was looking really good elsewhere.

This was the first time I remember seeing Tom's BLUE SAPPHIRE and it was
doing really well the one place I saw it.

Chuck Bunnell's MTBs looked wonderful everywhere we saw them.  Almost
<g> makes me want to try to grow a few.
--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
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