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Jul 14, 2014 6:42 AM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
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Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
Plays in the sandbox Butterflies Region: Texas Garden Sages I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member
Beautiful, all of them. Lovey dubby
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Jul 14, 2014 6:52 AM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
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Pwinget, that's one heck of a garden! I like the way you have the different kinds of iris in there.
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Jul 14, 2014 8:00 AM CST
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Oh my! That was a treat!! I love the form and color saturation on Bold Vision. Lovey dubby And Terracotta Bay goes on my wishlist too.

Thank you Maria!! nodding
Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com)
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Jul 14, 2014 8:41 AM CST
Name: Leslie
Durham, NC (Zone 8a)
Garden Photography Cat Lover Irises Region: North Carolina Peonies Enjoys or suffers hot summers
Celebrating Gardening: 2015
The garden shot is so nice! Lovey dubby It looks so tranquil. And what lovely siberians!
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black
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Jul 14, 2014 11:29 AM CST
(Zone 9b)
Region: California Garden Ideas: Level 1
Oh my! Drooling Beautiful irises, I love them all! Thumbs up


Your garden shot is amazing and what a view you have too! Hurray! Is that a corner of a deck I see on the left?
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Jul 14, 2014 3:01 PM CST
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Name: Maria
Victoria, BC (Zone 7b)
Region: Canadian Peonies Hummingbirder Birds Irises Seed Starter
This is Ted Baker's garden, not mine. My gardening skills aren't at that level yet (he's like level 80 and I'm maybe 3 Hilarious! ) I agree, it is a tranquil place. And what a place! He's done a wonderful job developing it. He lives on Salt Spring Island and he opens up his garden to the public during iris season (plus sells the irises). The last garden shot (which does have the deck on the left) has many of his siberians. Beyond it, are the rest of his siberians - I haven't posted those photos yet. Intermingled are his miniature tall beardeds and dwarf beardeds. He has another garden that has all manner of other plants including large rhodos. Then another garden has his tall beardeds. He's quite a caretaker of his property - I don't remember seeing a weed. I visited twice: second week and fourth week in May. The last visit had the best display as the TBs were open, almost all of the sibs, and minis (plus his peonies yay! Hurray! ).

Bold Vision lives up to its name, right? Really nice. One thing I've noticed from irises here, and not just in his garden, was that the coloration along the edge/rim (if distinguishable from the rest of the falls' colour) tends to be wider. Protocol's white band along the falls was over half an inch wide, for instance, similarly witnessed in Bold Vision. One of the hybridizers noted it on a Japanese Iris growing in Victoria and said it was due to differences in climate and/or soil.
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Jul 14, 2014 7:20 PM CST
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Interesting...............anyone else grow Bold Vision or Protocol, so that we can compare bands?

And yes Maria -- it surely does live up to it's name!! Lovey dubby
Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com)
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Jul 14, 2014 8:23 PM CST
Name: Bonnie Sojourner
Harris Brake Lake, Arkansas (Zone 7a)
Magnolia zone
Region: United States of America Region: Arkansas Master Gardener: Arkansas Irises Plant and/or Seed Trader Moon Gardener
Garden Ideas: Master Level Dragonflies Bulbs Garden Art Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Gardens in Buckets
Here is my protocol from this last spring. It had four standards and four falls and I was not really happy with it. It suffered the winter and then after it bloomed I lost a lot of it. It is bright in the garden and did not topple or tear in the high winds.
Thumb of 2014-07-15/grannysgarden/5f3805
It is usually a great performer.
Thro' all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing; It finds an echo in my soul— How can I keep from singing?
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Jul 15, 2014 4:02 AM CST
Name: Mary Ann
Western Kentucky (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Irises Hummingbirder Hostas Keeps Horses Farmer
Daylilies I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Cat Lover Region: Kentucky Birds
Doesn't have the wide bands that Maria was describing, does it? Confused
Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com)
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Jul 15, 2014 8:28 AM CST
Name: Leslie
Durham, NC (Zone 8a)
Garden Photography Cat Lover Irises Region: North Carolina Peonies Enjoys or suffers hot summers
Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Hopefully both my Protocol and my Bold Vision will bloom next year, which isn't much of a help now, but....
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black

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