Re: New member
- Subject: Re: New member
- From: p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:10:41 -0000
Regina,
I don't know whom you know who gives you dozens of bearded irises.
(Though I'd love an introduction!)
Actually, you can now use not knowing their names as an excuse to go
out and buy them yourself. One of the greatest joys of iris
addiction is going over all those catalogs and mapping out your beds
and dreams. And of course, if you get into hybridizing, you'll need
to use not only named but the most modern cultivars you can afford.
Luckily, you have some great hybridizers in your own country,
including Tempo Two, Barry Blyth's nursery (my personal favorite
hybridizer). You probably face the same taxes/fees we do when buying
abroad, so may be saved from the myriad temptations we face in the
U.S. However, the color catalogs are worth paying for just to see
what you want. I'm sure you're aware of the AIS website and its
links to commercial growers. And many commercial growers have
websites that themselves are rich with seduction.
Enoy your new obsession; I know I do!
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA, USA
--- In iris-talk@y..., regina_craig@y... wrote:
> Hi Wendy
> "Iris virus'... I like it. It's totally the way I feel at the
moment...
> and on reading your email, I also have a few daylillies, november
> lillies and hippeastrum (sp?) as well as many varieties of daisies
and
> geranium. (as a previous disliker of geranium, I've been sucked in
> there too).
> I'm a firm believer that my garden has to contain plants that are
> drought proof, frost resistant, will grow in any type of soil, and
> basically 'bomb proof', because of the really large variation in
> temperatures that we get and the hotter it gets, the less inclined
I am
> to go out watering regularly. Irises fit the bill perfectly.
> I was surprised to find that the irises seemed to grow better, the
more
> neglected they were! Strange!
> I've already started digging all over the place. I got my partner
to
> plough up a section of ground with the tractor and have more than
> tripled the original size of the garden. This is over 2 years. I'm
> lucky in that respect. I'm on a farm with area to move in near the
> house (until I fill it all up with irises that is!)
> Gippsland... that's sort of near Sale is it? That section of Vic,
> anyway?
> It's going to take me a long time to work through the posts for
this
> group. I reckon it's going to be worth the effort. I was going to
have
> a try at propagating... but not knowing some of the names is making
> that idea difficult.
> Oh well...
> I'll just have to keep on getting more Irises instead.
>
> Regina
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