Irises: My visit to the Iris Friendship Gardens, 0 by pollyk

pollyk wrote:
Mr. Borglum said he is over 70. But he runs the farm himself. Acres, and acres of plants. He is just the nicest person! And his grandson Hahn greeted us, and told us where to park, what a cutie!

Mr. Borglum has a policy stated of dig your own iris. $7.00 per clump, and there are shovels all over the place. But he came out, and visited with us for hours, and dug all the plants himself.

A really neat thing was how he cares for the iris. He plants them, and except for when he plants them he does not water them. They are in a drought situation there, for the month of May and June it only rained twice, but the plants are thriving.

Here's a new siberian he introduced recently. Seneca Midnight Blues. Sorry the picture is a little fuzzy, but the colors are accurate. It's very tall, and is still blooming in my garden.

This message was edited Jun 27, 2007 11:25 AM