I raised Iris at our home of 35 years and had some 200 varieties which I brought when we moved up here. I was also looking for older varieties and had a letter published in Birds and Blooms a year after we moved up here asking if anyone had some to sell it share. In the mean time, I decided to sell all the Iris and start raising daylilies.
That letter was published in late fall, and the packages of Iris started arriving like you wouldn't believe. We decided to stack the boxes along the garage wall and there must have been 50 of them. I was just going to give them away since I no longer wanted to deal with Iris because this soil harbored the dreaded Iris Borer. Hubby decided to follow the woods and tossed them in at random., and we now have lots of pretty flowers in the woods each spring.
For years after, we received Iris from people who got the magazines at garage sales and responded to the letter. Pretty cool!!
