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Evelyn and Marilyn, you have big garden plans! I applaud your goals!

I, on the other hand, have way too many irises - somewhere in the vicinity of 700 or so, including my own seedlings. (the plant list says I have over 800. but that includes Wants! ) My solution has been to hire a lovely lady for 4 hours each week - for the past year. She's half my age and has many times my strength. Sometimes she brings her 10 yr. old son with her. He was a student in Chris' elementary school art class in past years and they share an interest in birds. DH is going to put him to work helping him stack firewood.

So, together, Liz and I will be discarding or giving away many of the excess irises. She's already started an iris garden of her own with good results.
Hopefully we can pare the iris garden down to under 500 - but it will be hard to stop "pollen daubing"! I've also acquired a taste for day lilies! Controlling my wants is my biggest goal.