Re: REF?: "Trekkie" Names.
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- Subject: Re: REF?: "Trekkie" Names.
- From: "* &* b* p* <i*@pip.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:46:44 +1000
From: "heather & bernard pryor" <irishaven@pip.com.au>
>From: "carl eckhoff" <cee@ourtownusa.net>
>
>Didn't edit anything on purpose, I just want to add AMEN!!!! Save me a
spot.
>Judy Eckhoff
>KANSAS
>home of the orignal OZ
>
>>Mark A. Cook wrote:
>>
>>----I am not a Trekkie, but that transporter thing is
>>>interesting...
>>>
>>
>>It sure is!!! Imagine how nice it would be to transport to the Land of Oz
>>one morning and enjoy Heather's garden now. OR, how about using it when
>>purchasing rhizomes... sure would beat the United States Postal Service!
>>
>>BillSmoot - Portsmouth, VA
Dear Carl & Judy,
If sharing the name IRIS HAVEN wasn't enough..... now I learn that we share
the name OZ too!
Silly me for not remembering THAT important matter!
As you know my hybridising aspirations include the creation of a truly
orange Louisiana (like Legato) and I have always referred to my hybridising
ambitions as following the "orange brick road". I believe that we were
all pre-ordained to meet up as we have. We seem to share SO MUCH in common.
I have a registered iris (as yet unreleased) called WIZARD OF AUSSIE which
fits in well with my theme. I also have an Iris named OUR DOROTHY plus
FIGHTING SPIRIT (after the Lion who had no courage) and have two seedlings
from the same cross, with one destined to be called RUBY SLIPPERS this
season when I decide which one gets the geursnsey and which one gets the
spade!
The story behind WIZARD OF AUSSIE is rather cute. I wanted to name the Iris
WIZARD OF OZ (of course!) but Keith Keppel advised that it was already used.
I then asked our Australian Registrar to re-apply using the name WIZARD OF
AUSSIE instead. She said "No way he will allow that as it sounds the same".
I replied, "You are wrong, in the US 'Aussie' is pronounced 'ossie' and 'Oz'
is pronounced 'ozz'. He will allow it because it sounds quite different to
him." You guessed it, he agreed! (Here in Australia Oz and Aus are
pronounced the same - as 'ozz").
Our weather has been amzing. WE have now endured four days of 33 degrees C
temperatures. The Louisianas are loving it, and popping open like mad. Our
bloom season normally starts in mid September with SPRING WELCOME (hence its
name) usually leading the field followed by LUCY PAYENS, WHISPERED PROMISE
and several seedlings from crosses of these parents. We went to the garden
on Tuesday to find all of these plus several more open, and many more in
"colour spike". We recorded the hottest September day earlier this week in
25 years. Last week we were running around in sweatshirts and this week we
are in shorts and singlets! Our weather is still in a non-El Nino pattern,
so here's hoping it stays that way for a bit longer.
Poor Bernard has been desparately unwell this week with a raging temperature
and a nasty virus to boot. We have stayed quietly inside since Tuesday, but
his temperature broke last night. We are hopeful to take a visit to the
garden in the late (and hopefully cooler) afternoon. We have an order to
dig 400 Iris this coming weekend for one customer and will be delivering
them 400 klms away on Monday, so we are hoping that he will be sufficiently
well enough by then to come with me to the customer's garden. It is a truly
awesome place with no expense spared on plants etc. The lady who owns the
garden has fallen in love with our Louisiana Iris and wants another 300 in
November. She has 17 acres to play with and two full-time gardeners. I have
been raving about her garden to B. since my visits to it last year, so want
B. to see it for himself next week. We are in school holidays for this week
and next week so he at least chose a convenient time to be sick.
Hope you are both well. Cheers for now. H
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