Meet Nancy Barnum -- New "ROOTS" Editor
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- Subject: Meet Nancy Barnum -- New "ROOTS" Editor
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- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:36:03 -0600
MEET NANCY BARNUM -- NEW "ROOTS" EDITOR
by Barb Johnson
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I discovered that the
new Editor of ROOTS, the Journal of the Historic Iris Preservation
Society, lives right here in Springfield, Missouri.
Nancy Barnum is a very busy lady. She has been an AIS Judge for three
years, Editor of the AIS Region 18 Bulletin for three years, a North
American Lily (Lilium) Society Judge for eight years, President of the
Ozark Regional Lily Society four years plus Editor of the same
organization for ten years. Additionally, for the past six years Nancy
has been a Volunteer Naturalist at the Missouri Department of
Conservation Springfield Nature Center, giving programs on hummingbird
and butterfly gardening, native plant floral arranging, and leading
native plant walks. Now she has taken over Mike and Ann Lowe's job as
Editor of ROOTS.
In the past ten years Nancy has been past President of the Springfield
Chapter of the Missouri Native Plant Society, past President of a local
Federated Garden Club, and has served on the Board of the Botanical
Society of Southwest Missouri for eight years.
Gardening began as a child for Nancy when her grandparents gave her a
plot each year to grow her own plants. She has also gardened 35 of the
37 years since marrying her childhood sweetheart, David. Nancy and David
have one married son and they along with both sets of their parents
reside in Springfield.
The Barnums' home lot is packed with all types of plants which Nancy
plants and cares for herself. The iris she grows include TB, MDB,
Species, Siberians, Spurias, Japanese, Louisianas, and a few Dutch
(bulb) iris. Of course, some of these are historics. In addition to the
150-plus varieties of iris, she grows more than 200 varieties of lilium,
75 varieties of hostas, 55-60 varieties of daylilies, plus numerous
other native and hybrid plants and shrubs -- many of which were planted
to attract and feed hummingbirds and butterflies.
Nancy is happy to be the new ROOTS Editor and looks forward to
publishing the Journal for those of us who love historic iris. Articles
you would like published in ROOTS should be mailed to: HIPS EDITOR,
P. O. Box 8293, Springfield, MO 65801. The mailing deadline date for the
Spring issue is January 31 and for the Fall issue September 30. If you
would like to send her short messages, her email address is:
nbarnum@mail.orion.org.
Telephone interview by Barb Johnson 10-22-96
Permission granted by Nancy Barnum for publishing on the Internet.
Barb Johnson, ljohnson@cland.net
Southwest Missouri Ozarks, USDA Zone 5b, AIS Region 18
