Re: AIS: OKC convention
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Hi Ellen,
I'll be posting when I get all my notes together. It was UNCLE CHARLIE that
got the Franklin Cook Cup and RHONDA FLEMING is by Ron Mullin.
I did get confirmed that humore -- their favourite soil additive -- is high
in nitrogen. I talked to Louisa (I don't remember her last name), a native
Okie, who said that she gets great results using half the recommended
amount.
On siberians, did you not see BLUEBERRY FAIR? I thought it was doing well.
But then, this was the first time I've seen this one.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where a small tornado touched down briefly in the
town across the river on Saturday.
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> From: Ellen Gallagher[SMTP:e_galla@moose.ncia.net]
> Reply To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 5:00 PM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] AIS: OKC convention
>
> From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a short, barebones post since I have gotten requests
> from folks to tell them 'stuff'.
>
> President's Cup (best in-region iris seen in the convention
> gardens and voted on by the attendees):
>
> RHONDA FLEMING, TB (Ron Mullin, ??)
>
> Franklin-Cook Cup (best out-or-region iris seen in the
> convention gardens and voted on by the attendees):
>
> MR. CHARLIE, TB (Don Spoon, '99)
>
> I inadvertently (honest) attended part of the TBIS meeting
> since I was looking for my geek t-shirt and Joanne Jones had
> them in the meeting. It took me a while to find her since I
> didn't know her so I listened to Rick Ernest talk about tractors,
> etc. I didn't join, BTW, especially after he volunteered that people
> from New Hampshire plant irises upside down. I yelled out at that
> one since I was representing the whole blasted state. And I WAS
> going to even buy THAI ORANGE this year that he hybridized.
>
> The little things that make a convention memorable: I was on the
> Blue 1 bus that got termed "the bus with an attitude" and what a
> motley crew we were. Our bus driver (we had two) and our bus
> captain (we had two of those - no one could stand us :)) got us
> lost three times. The best one was getting lost driving into the
> OK Community College for lunch..we just couldn't seem to find the
> right driveway. One other bus didn't have any lunch on Fri. - we
> probably ate it all (no, there was an error made in numbers for
> lunch).
>
> When we got lost on Sat. trying to find the last garden (that we
> had visited the day before), we voted to go back to the hotel to
> get ready for dinner.
>
> The only big disppointment for me was the almost total failure
> of the growers to grow Siberians. The very few we saw blooming
> (7 named varieties - there were 4 with no tags) were far shorter
> than they should be and the bloom was not good. OK had a very
> hot summer last year and the Sibes were planted in full sun when
> partial shade might have helped. Mulching was not done to retain
> water.
>
> I talked to one of the garden owners, Mrs. Watson, and she did her
> best but no luck. I termed the Siberian section in the gardens the
> "graveyard" complete with grave markers.
>
> Interestingly enough there was one gorgeous Sibe WALL STREET BLUES,
> (Aitkin) growing in a border right in front of the house and it
> was not a guest. The right height and showing good bloom and fair
> foliage. This man did not use the 'Humore' (which is added to the
> soil as an amendment all around OKC) which I was told by the sales
> rep. at one of the gardens is intended for bearded irises. There
> are several different formulas for sale and I didn't bother to
> look at the bags. I suspect it is high in nitrogen and Ca (don't
> know this to be a fact and it may be completely wrong and probably
> is).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ellen
>
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> Ellen Gallagher / e_galla@ncia.net
> Northern New Hampshire, USA / Zone 3
> Berlin, NH in 'The Great North Woods'
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