Re: Welcome to sibrob

>New members are invited to send a brief introduction to the list.

Hi!   I just joined the robin and per the info from the robin
moderator/owner's welcome message I thought I'd let everyone know a bit
about myself and my garden. I've liked Siberians since I first grew them in
the 1980s when I lived in Cohasset, CA (at 3500 feet in the northern Sierra
Nevada where I had a small nursery that mostly grew asiatic lilies). During
the 1990s I moved around a lot for work (Iowa, Michigan, etc.) and didn't
really ever have any place to grow anything. I now live in Denver, CO and
finally have a place to plant things again. This spring I put in a big bed
(48x 12 feet) that I plan to eventually fill up with Siberian Iris,
Daylilies, and True Lilies (Asiatics and Orientals). My soil here was
horrible: shallow, mostly fill dirt overlaying compacted clay, with a lot of
rock/gravel/bentonite mixed in it. I double-dug the bed to a depth of 18
inches, removed many, many wheelbarrow loads of rock and then added in 16x
4-cubic foot bags of peat moss plus a small mountain of compost. The end
result was a nice bed of soil about 24 inches deep. I now have it partially
planted with 80 different siberians, a dozen or so daylilies, and about 40
different asiatic lilies with many more planned additions for next year. I'm
in the process of installing a drip irrigation system for the bed -- drip
being all but mandatory here given that we only get about 15 inches of
rainfall in a normal year and many years Denver ends up rationing water;
fortunate for me, too, the bed is directly above an old branch sewer line
that appears to leak some as I've I found the ground below about a foot in
depth to always be slightly damp. (I also have plans for another bed on the
other side of the house once I figure out how to get rid of a gigantic rock
(the size of a small car) that is mostly buried there.)

One of my goals is to have a planting of all the Morgan Award winners. I got
a list of the siberians who have won this award from 1952-2005 from the
Society for Siberian Irises website, and have to date acquired (or ordered)
all of the listed award winners except for:
    1954 - Tropic Night
    1966 - Cool Spring
    1970 - Dewful
    1974 - Grand Junction
    1979 - Augury
If anyone has information as to source(s) for any of these I would be most
appreciative.

Thanks,
Arthur Goodwin





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