Re: Re: My new memebership

Yes and Thank you, 

I have only joined the chat list this month and had not had any knowledge of it until just then.  I apparently have immersed myself completely.  I have been an AIS member since 1993 and growing them longer than that.  I have not created (or know how to create) a Bio on here and really have no idea who the others are in this forum to know their qualifications.   Some of the names have vague familiarity to me.

I am mostly enjoying it so far.


I am finding the climate here in Raleigh not all that different from Indianapolis other than it doesn't get as cold  or quite as dry here.  Less of my plants seem to go thru summer dormancy that in Indianaplois and retain more leaves.  Apparently the weather around here lately has not been normal for NC.  I don';t feel that it would compare esily to Linda's climate all that well as it doesn't get as humid or continuously wet around Raleigh as often or for long time periods as it may for her.

Paul Archer, Raleigh, NC  Zone 7


 


-----Original Message-----
From: ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
Sent: Sep 1, 2005 7:44 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Trial Garden

In a message dated 8/31/05 10:58:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pharcher@mindspring.com writes:

<< Thanks Linda for clarifying your situation.  I do understand,  but we all 
do
 appreciate your efforts and endeavours however small. [...]I have no doubt 
when you do get something of value it will become quite usefull to others in 
their efforts.>>

Paul, when did you join this list, please? Was it really only this month or 
is that just when you first started posting? I looked for your Bio in the 
Archives and could not find one. Did I not search right? In any case, welcome to 
the list. You will find we are a diverse group. I find the level of expertise on 
this list amazing. 

Further by way of welcome, since these issues appear to interest you 
especially, please let me share the happy news that there is nothing at the least bit 
small in Linda Mann's efforts or endeavors and we need not, in fact, wait for 
her to accomplish something of value. She is very modest about her 
credentials, and about reporting her activities, but she is a highly trained scientist, a 
wholly independent thinker, and I believe it is generally agreed that her 
work over these past many years has been some of the most interesting and 
important experimental activity undertaken in the world of irises. 

You are in Raleigh? Now that is a part of North Carolina which often gets 
some unpleasant weather. I know this since my uncle is an Emeritus Professor of 
French at Duke, in Durham, just down the road. His wife used to grow her irises 
in Orange County. Anyway, I am aware that hurricanes, ice storms, freak cold 
snaps, floods, all sorts of fascinating things happen with some regularity in 
your neck of the woods. Maybe you are in a position to offer Linda some 
personal observations which would be useful in her work. 

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond, VA USA

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