RE: Siberians & tall beardeds

Claire,
	Another good Siberian Iris is Butter and Sugar, a nice sunny yellow
w/white.  It occasionally reblooms for me also.  I have been looking for a
good blue, so will search for Orville Fay.  I love the Siberians when they
are in bloom, but agree it is oh too short.
	Then there are the tall beardeds....Another short and sweet bloom season
and a riot of color.  I have gone back to growing the old timers, names
unknown.  A good clear sky blue and a purple that smell like grape Koolade.
A few old bicolors that were here when I came 25 years ago.  The others
tempt me, but there isn't room for many.  None repeat reliably.
	As to the pronunciation of words, especially medical & botanical Latin.  It
really makes a difference which part of the country you are from.  I could
pick out the new interns that went to school in the east on their first day
at the hospital.  The same with nursery folks I meet at the trade shows.
There will never be a uniform method of pronunciation in such a large
country.  And of course, the influence of TV is strong, especially on
younger folks.

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon

........  The foliage is tall and perfect until snowed
upon.   It is a tall, imposing plant that makes  many flowers with one
branch
so you get a second bloom.  Siberians do not carry many buds and those
with no branching are a too quick show.  Orville is my favorite and the
first
marketed by the 100 year old Dr. McEwen of Maine. It is the only Siberian
ever noticed in my garden.  If you are going to grow Siberians, select very
good ones.

With the word foliage, I throw out the pronunciation if this word.  It was
fo-li-age, three syllables for most of my life.  Now I hear it on TV
programs
as fo-lage, two syllables. I have passed into a new era without knowing it
or
someone needs to tell me we have had a change.  This is true with quite a
few
words, I have outlived my education.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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