Hope everyone will take the time to read Sharon's article about Wild Iris Rows -- at the top of the Today's Idea column!!

Just read it, looks like you guys had fun.

I read it and really, really enjoyed it Mary Ann. I so wish I could have been a third party member that day. Sounds like it was a treat for all the senses. Sharon is a wonderful writer and along with your excellent photography you make a team that cant be beat! more please.

Thanks guys. Sharon and I are already planning our trip for next spring!

Then you must plan to document it as well so the rest of us can 'join you'. smiles

tveguy3 said:Just read it, looks like you guys had fun.

We did, Tom. It was a sunny, warm day (not hot) -- and just perfect for a road trip, and for wandering around and through garden after garden after garden of glorious Irises. Sigh. Would like to do that about once a month!!

grannysgarden said:Then you must plan to document it as well so the rest of us can 'join you'. smiles

You can count on that!!!

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Bonnie, I was going to tell you that we'd meet you there next May, but then I looked at a map and saw that you are about 400 miles away from Springfield Tennessee, so I don't think that would be a good day trip for you. Sure do wish you were closer, though. It was a sight to lift spirits for sure!

If either of you two needed extra iris then you could go back in late summer when Greg has his $1.00 per rhizome sale. Not all varieties are on sale though or I would be there at the crack of dawn to snatch up all those Burseens!

Great to know, Leslie, thank you!

Read the article also and know firsthand that Wild Iris Rows is a good place to order/purchase irises. I got to sit with Judy and Greg Hester when Region 7 meeting was in Lexington and see them at the ones in TN also. They send you lots of extras and usually ones they know will grow well for your area. I am close than you are, Mary Ann, so I must make a trip down there next spring.

You absolutely should, Janie!!

Thank you for the nice write up Sharon, and steering me there Mary Ann. It went well with morning coffee.

I have had great interaction with Greg about his iris, so I love that they got a great shout out! Believe the sale shout out led to the Gerry Atwell battle last year Mary Ann? Hee.
I have ordered classics from him this year, but need to say again that his Vuneta Krisle have a heavenly smell. Very bright color and long blooming too, but that lovely smell!!!!!

It was a mighty battle indeed, Leslie! I only won it because I acted a hair quicker than you did. Who would've ever thought that he had only one rhizome left????

Anyway -- it's doing fine out there, but didn't bloom for me this year. Poetic justice, eh? It was fortuitous that I got to see it this year during our visit to Wild Iris Rows!!!

And was it nice in bloom? Mine will be sent a bit later this summer. Not all the ones I got earlier in the summer from WIR bloomed this year, but most of the late order ones did. They were mostly Burseens in the late batch, only I Wuv Woses and Sensationalizer didn't bloom. I expect they will next year.

Did you get to see his dwarf Intrepid Hunter in bloom?? I really want to see that one.

It was very pretty -- you'll be glad to have it!

I did not see Intrepid Hunter -- or, if I did, I didn't make a note of it. The dwarfs usually finish blooming earlier than the TB's -- and we were there at the end of the TB's. Does he have a picture of it on his website?

He has a great picture of it, and his pictures have been pretty true to what I have gotten but I like to see comparison pics. Guess that comes from too many vendor pictures looking too good to be true! (No offense Hester's!).

Yah -- I know what you mean.........