My oldest daughter has a house in Vancouver WA near some of the big growers. It's her first house, and after helping me with iris her whole life, she's excited to have her own and to hybridize her own. She and I studied the list of iris so carefully and each made lists.
Five minutes before the sale started, her computer locked up. She quickly borrowed another computer, but her cubits password and iris list were on the locked computer. With time ticking down, she had to set up a new identity with a new password. I quickly mailed her my list, and she was able to get in!
My youngest daughter was here helping me because my hands shake badly, and she's a cool headed whiz. We were all so excited to get in. I have a super slow, unreliable internet connection that crashes all the time so I don't know how I got so lucky this time.
After all that, my daughter decided to send the iris to her grandmother. She''ll make grandma super happy, and I hope my daughter can go next spring and buy from Schreiners and Aitkens. I told her to go this spring, but she is in med school and working so she really doesn't have a ton of free time.
She lurks on here a lot to learn about organic gardening and herbs, so if some of you saw what you thought was a brand new member buying, it wasn't.
Some of you may remember her from the National Iris Convention of 2015...she took off work and attended with me and almost missed the bus from Schreiners because she was so deep into a hybridizing conversation with Steve Schreiner.
