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From: Amozoo@aol.com

Hi I am Amoret Phillips
	New to the list and Irises.  I recently began to garden again.  My 
gardening history is as follows: mostly grown vegetables about 20 years ago 
(for about 4 years) and then been mostly not gardening at all since then.  
One house I lived in had beautiful blueish/or  purple bearded Irises I can't 
recall exactly. ( I didn't know enough to take any with me when I moved)  
	I've been reclaiming an old flower bed that is full of "scruff oaks" 
horrible long tap roots and lots of other nasty weeds with huge bulbous root 
I call devil weeds.  Anyway, I'm in Wilmington, NC and the soil is sand sand 
sand. (so easy to dig when there are no roots involved).  I started to look 
through flower catalogues and drooled over the irises, but felt like I needed 
to stay low budget.  Then a neighbor said she was getting rid of 3 beds of 
irises and would I like any!  
	I was so excited I went to the web and tried to learn what I could 
(after it was too dark to dig) and I dug with a maddoc furiously for 2 days 
clearing about a 10 foot by 3 foot space, (in this old flower bed filled with 
scruff oaks, etc.) 
	I happily went to my friends house and dug up these plants and took 
them home.  I sure hope I haven't killed them!  My understanding is that you 
break of the back end of the risome and just keep the part with the roots.  
Please tell me that's right.  That's what I did.  I made these beautiful 
little mounds and placed the roots on either side and covered the roots and 
just barley covered the risome.  I cut the foliage back some to keep them 
from tipping over.  I watered them profusely.  I had them planted in less 
than 3 hours after digging them up.  
	I don't even know what kind they are except that they are yellow, she 
thinks, she knows less than I do about Irises. She just moved in.  I was 
surprised to learn there are Iris societies and such an iris following. I 
love learning about new things.  
	 Is this list only for one type of Iris? There is so much to learn, I 
guess the library is my next stop.
	Thanks for listening to my ramblings.  I am hopping this list is the 
right place for me to learn about Irises in general.
Cordially Amoret

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