Re: CAT: Lone Star Iris Gardens
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- Subject: Re: CAT: Lone Star Iris Gardens
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 13:41:18 -0700
From: "R. S. Lockman" <thelockmans@tntie.com>
Hi Bill,
I am Green with envy... Garnet Storm Dancer is a beautiful iris (its on my
want list) and
the other three also. Wow, how lucky you are!
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> From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] CAT: Lone Star Iris Gardens
> Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 8:27 AM
>
> From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>
> This week I received my first order from Lone Star Gardens, and was
> mightily pleased with their rhizomes and their generosity. The rhizomes
> were large and firm (though lacking roots, as is so often the case with
LAs
> in late summer), and where in one variety, the rhizomes were on the small
> side, two were sent. One plant I had ordered, priced at $5.00 in the
> catalog, was out, so it was substituted for by another variety priced at
> $40.00! In addition, the extra plant was a 1997 Pryor introduction. So
> now I am the proud owner of four new Pryor irises: GARNET STORM DANCER,
> PRIX D'ELEGANCE, JOIE DE VIVRE, HOT AND SPICY. With such nice rhizomes,
I'm
> hoping to see some bloom on one or two of these next year.
>
> The plants soaked for several days and have now been planted into a bed
> freshly enriched with several cartloads of compost. After they
establish,
> a mulch of a few inches of leafmold will go on for the winter. If we
have
> another mild winter like the last one, they should grow throughout the
> winter.
>
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills@hsc.edu>
>
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