mystlw said:..... a local bank has hundreds of beautiful irises,.
maybe u shld ask them if they will give u some when they have to divide them. I used to help pull weeds in a neighbour's garden when I walked my dog. She was grateful as the weeds were bad. I wish now I had asked her for some bits of daylilies she had. Before I thought to ask a new owner ripped them all out and put down pine bark.