I am Cleta, a resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho. When I moved here from California 10 years ago after teaching in middle school for 19 years with my hubby who had taught for 35 years, I brought several rhizomes of each of my iris cultivars, about 45 with us. I unfortunately lost 1/3 of them when we moved into our current home, but the ones that survived flourished. Over the next few years I added a few from neighbors or a special beauty from the neighborhood nursery. I received about 15 more from a friend 3 years ago, but had no place to put them. That began my 3 year time of digging up rockson the east, north, and west of our house and replacing them with iris. I found the iris forum when I was trying to identify some of my grandmother's NOIDs. I joined in spring of 2015 and last summer added 20+ cultivars for postage. Hooked, this year I ordered 10 more from Burgards and hope to make more trades this summer. My hubby of 48 years loves my 'flowers' and chuckles at me when he catches me talking to them and sees me pouring over the database trying to identify a NOID. We have 4 children and 16 grandchildren spread around the country, so in between traveling to see them and the world , I dig holes for more iris, savor each bloom and imagine even more beauty next year, Last summer I shattered my shoulder and this forum was a godsend as I chatted with knowledgeable friendly people, drooled over gorgeous pictures and spent many hours enjoying the site. A good place to spend time
