Name: Paul Utah (Zone 5b) Grandchildren are my greatest joy.
There are far to many nice iris for any one of us to grow. The beauty of the iris threads and the data base here on ATP is that I can see and enjoy pictures of many iris that I will never grow. I had a friend who is gone now who grew over 400 cultivars and added new things each year. His garden was just a few minutes from my home and my work and I visited often. One day a light went on in my sometimes dense mind. If Ray had a nice clump of a wonderful iris I didn't need to grow it. I could see it ever day of the bloom season in his garden. ATP allows me to visit the gardens of all my ATP friends and see lovely iris that I will not grow.
