Re: Siberian iris test garden

From: Irisquilt@aol.com

I think the Test Garden is a good idea if there is someone willing to take 
care of it-  Labeling, maping the garden, keeping the seed pods picked off.  
I have participated in the Loomis Test gardens and a few years later I had 
the opportunity to visit it.  It was located so that some of each bed was 
located with a low spot-guess what they put the siberians on the high spot 
where they dried out and the rhizomatous ones in the low spot where they 
rotted.  Lovely beds with curbing on them-just not good judgement in 
planting.  They put out a nice judging of them and it looked like a good 
idea.  It would seem to me that there might be some areas where convention 
guests could become the backbone planting and they would keep adding new 
cultivars to them.  I think CAN may be our 1st opportunity for that to 
happen.  I know RBG used to have a good collection of newer siberians when 
Dr. McGarvey sent them to Dr. Laking.  If you have someone in MN interested I 
say lets go for it.  Anna Mae Miller, Kalamazoo MI Z5

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