Re: CAT: ?Friendship Gardens

I answered  Linda's mail direct - guess I should have, in this case, sent it 
thru the iris talk system, but so many times an answer is really for that one 
person!  Anyhow,   I was actually trying to phone Joan at the time I was 
reading email -- I talk to her frequently, and her phone number  is under her 
address in the catalog and I know she does phone people, altho she rarely reads or 
uses email, she's too busy in the garden  She does her own work mostly and 
doesn't have a staff like the Big Names.  I did not reach her then, and supposed 
she's trying to cope with the coming weather since her husband was out of 
town, and the weather is pretty scary right now.  Joan is very meticulous  with 
her iris orders, but this year has been a disaster as it has for so many 
gardeners  - for a while I was wondering if  the rain would stop long enough to try 
to plant, and the weeds grow expansively!  And in her case, the rains were 
devastating  for her garden and she lost many irises, even rows of the same thing! 
 She is still shipping - I finally got her on the phone, and she knew about 
Linda's order for the one rhizome, which was a new intro  which  was one of 
those (or course) that had suffered in the weather.  She was waiting until 
shipments were enough over to see how much she had left (orders are filled in order, 
I guess -- no pun intended) -- but this one is down to  2 rz, so she said she 
was planning on sending Linda back her check when she can get to a mailbox 
without swimming( !) and hope for better luck and weather for  the garden next 
year. In  the past I  know (because I have helped her) she has sent  out 
beautiful rz and she has bemoaned what she had available this year - and in  
Feb.(when she did a count) she had high hopes for a good year -- but this spring was  
unbelievable! -- even farmers were complaining they couldn't plant!  Hope 
this is an exoneration for all the small gardeners.   Rosalie nr Baltimore,USA  
aa soggy, getting soggier zone 7  ryfigge@aol.com

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