Re: OT: weather and Oklahoma

From: "Ruth Simmons" <ruth@sonetcom.com>

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From: Perry Dyer <pdyer@flash.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 11:53 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: OT: weather and Oklahoma


>From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>
>
>Hi Linda,
>
>Glad you enjoyed the catalog.  I haven't even opened my e-mail for the past
>4 or 5 days, scrambling to get the convention booklet finished and to the
>printers.  600 copies being printed, 150 pages long.  I nearly
>procrastinated long enough to screw it all up and we wouldn't have had a
>convention booklet for next week's festivities!  Wouldn't that have been
>embarrassing!!  We get it from the printers tomorrow and I'm immediately
>going to the registrar's house (Mona French -- Hi Mona) with them with my
>tail between my legs (you see, I had promised to have the booklet to her
TWO
>WEEKS ago, argh!).
>
>Miss Kitty informed me, many years ago, that her namesake was to be a
>turquoise Tall Bearded.  Well, thanks a lot.  With all the beautiful blues
>produced the past 100 years, from Chivalry to Blue Sapphire to Rippling
>River, you'd think a turquoise wouldn't be that big of a deal.  How many
can
>you name?  Navajo Jewel (Weiler) is as close as any TB I've seen, but it's
>so incredibly tender (and early-blooming) that even this far south, we
>rarely ever see it displayed on more than a 10" club of a stalk.  Such a
>pity, because it's a pretty thing.  (And of course, there's the SDB, TuTu
>Turquoise from my buddy, Paul Black).  So we picked a Planned Treasure
>seedling.  Looked wonderful in Blanchard, but downright n-a-s-t-y here at
>the new place last spring (you'll see it next week for yourself).  She's
not
>getting any younger, and I keep having life-threatening accidents, so we
>decided we better roam the patch and pick one quick.  We both agreed on the
>banded reverse yellow amoena that's almost a Border.  She's short (almost a
>Border, but without the beard), and the horizontal falls remind me of her
>dancing around the garden.  That's the story behind Kitty.  BTW, Kitty is
>not her legal name, but I don't dare even *mention* her real name for fear
>of reprisal from her.
>
>The early-blooming Blyth TB's have been glorious:  Act Three (an improved,
>deeper, prettier Edith Wolford), Harmonics (a Keppel-ish blue and white
>plicata), and all those zany bicolored wonders (Witching, Pagan Mirth, and
3
>or 4 others my brain can't pull up right now).  In the convention guests
>here, Lowell Baumunk's new IB, Midsummer Night's Dream has been the early
>star.  Magnificent.  His first introduction, if my memory serves me
>correctly, and what a way to start a "hybridizing career".
>
>Perry
>
>>
>>
>>Anyhow, thank you so much for forwarding your catalog.  I received it
>>yesterday and have been enjoying reading it.  Your mom is cuter than a
>bug's
>>ear!!  It's a lovely portrait and you are a good son to acknowledge what a
>>wonderful mom she is.  Did she choose the iris you named for her?  I just
>>wondered.  It's very pretty and thought she may have been particularly
fond
>>of it.
>>
>>
>
>
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