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Welcome, Kevin.  Come on up to Ottawa during bloom season.  The Central
Experimental Farm has a good selection of siberians (though older ones)
planted in the ornamental gardens.  You can also check out some of the newer
cultivars in my garden and Ian Efford grows many different species iris.

Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Ontario

Kevin Bergevin wrote:

>
> Hello everyone.  I thought I would send a few words of introduction.
> I joined sibrob about two weeks ago, and have spent some time
> ploughing through the archives to "get grounded".
>
> For a half-dozen years I have been planting a fairly wide variety of
> perennials and evaluating them against my criteria:
> -plants should look attractive throughout the gardening year
> -be cold hardy in my area
> -be weed suppressing, or can be mulched to suppress weeds
> -and must increase over time
>
> Early on in this endeavour I traded some plants with a friend and
> ended up with a siberian iris (with very small species-type flowers).
> This was my first awareness of siberians, though I was familiar with
> the various bearded classes.
>
> I soon realized that this siberian iris met my criteria far better
> than the bearded irises I had been growing and ordered 6 older
> varieties from a mail order catalogue.  I have been adding to my
> collection exponentially and, if everything planted this year
> survives, I will be up to 37 varieties.  My acquisitions have
> included a number of recent award winners, popularity poll
> favourites, rebloomers, and shorter varieties.  I keep notes on my
> siberians, including bloom dates and spring fan counts.
>
> In the future I would like to acquire more of the shorter (6"-24")
> introductions to experiment with a wider variety of planting
> schemes.  In this height range I already have: RUFFLED VELVET,
> JEWELLED CROWN, ANNICK, SWEET SUCCESS & ILLINI CHARM.  Other short
> ones that I am aware of are: SASSY KOOMA,  SNOW QUEEN, WEISER ZWERG,
> BABY SISTER, LORENA CRONIN and PRECIOUS DOLL.  Any comments on these
> (or other short varieties) would be appreciated, particularly with
> respect to vigor.
>
> Anyway, I'm happy to be aboard!
>
> Kevin Bergevin
> near Kingston, Ontario
> z4/5
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