I spent a couple days of my trip just walking there fields with camera in hand looking for different plants, that I had seen in there catalog and was curious to see how they looked in the perfect growing conditions before I bought them and tried to get them to live through our horrible midwest weather. A couple of the things I noticed was very little wind, we start the season off with stakes for everything in Iowa, with out them nothing would be standing after a spring storm. I also noticed there was very few bugs, this was my first year of trying to make crosses and get some plants to set pods and I seemed to fight the bugs for the pollen, it was neat to be able to see thousands of Iris unaffected by the same pests I fought during bloom. I was also surprised to find out that they move all of these bulbs every year to maintain there size what a incredible amount of work.
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