Re: Re: Welcome to sibrob
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Re: Welcome to sibrob
- From: J*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:08:50 -0400
Hi Arthur, I just tried the website of Tranquil Lake Nursery in
Rehoboth, MA. They list several of the varieties you are looking for
including Dewful, Cool Spring and Tropic Night. I've never ordered
from them so don't know anything about their plants. Many years ago we
went there and saw the most fantastic and beautiful planting of Butter
and Sugar, which we haven't been able to grow well. Their prices are
reasonable. They also sell daylilies. Marty Schafer, Carlisle, MA
-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Goodwin <ArthurGoodwin@netscape.com>
To: sibrob@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:44:12 -0600
Subject: [sibrob] 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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