Re: Iris In Bloom
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- Subject: Re: Iris In Bloom
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:52:41 -0600 (MDT)
Mike00Rita@aol.com wrote:
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> I have found some nice old iris in cemetaries, I'm sure many of you have
> had the same experience.
Rita -- Your words remind me of an experience of almost 20 years ago. As
an iris lover, I had heard the lore that irises were spread up through
the Balkans by Turkish soldiers who carried the rhizomes to plant on
their comrades' graves. On a warm April day in 1978, several companions
and I were speeding up the valley from Adana, on Turkey's southern
coast, during a tour of the southern flank of NATO. We flashed past a
cemetery, and there, on every grave, a mound of iris was blooming in
profusion. So, perhaps there is something to the tale.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA, and up to my
elbows in blooming TBs. jgcrump@erols.com
