Re: AIS: HYB: Club Gardens/Trial Gardens

Variabilty in data is always open to interpretation. The classic phrase to be taken with a grain of salt is well known and that suggests that many people are aware of limitations in information. Presently all we have is hearsay for building a case on which Iris we should recommend to someone in another part of the country. A classic example are the two variegated pallidas Argentea and Zebra (yes I know that Zebra is not really Zebra). The first is variegated with white the second in yellow. Argentea is said to do well in the West and Zebra in the East. Actually neither does all that well for me unless I give them a lot of care. Perhaps reports from a number of gardens around the country could lead to some conclusions as to what is needed to get these to perform well. Some degree of variability due to garden management might be adjusted for if both are compared within gardens and between gardens.  If a garden fails with a set of ten Iris then maybe the gardens culture might be
 more in question than if some do well and others not.

ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 9/2/05 10:03:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rpries@sbcglobal.net writes:

<< I wonder how many of these gardens there really are and if after a show 
or as part of another activity several people could fill out report forms on 
say 3 or 4 Iris. If 12 people did this in a garden you could have 30-40 Iris 
examined. If these were AM winners and data was collected from a couple of dozen 
gardens around the country a picture of regional/climatic performance might 
develop. What do you think? >>

I think you'd want to give some thought as to how varying levels of 
maintenance might impact those reports and that picture. I understand maintenance is 
often a bugbear with these projects. You could end up with a stack of reports 
which suggested nothing so much as that folks in one area did not take very good 
care of their public garden, or pampered it egregiously. 

It is not just the quantity of information that counts, it is also the 
quality of it. 

Just thinking aloud here, Bob, since you asked us.

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead

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