Iris you a Merry Christmas!

With a little imagination - - you can say just about anything.

Iris you a Merry Christmas, all my fellow iris lovers!!

A Merry family Christmas to you too.

Same to you, Margie. I so enjoy your iris pictures!!

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Thank you Kooger. My family and I had a great Christmas. There is nothing like gathering around family and friends.................making memories that will last a lifetime!

John, what a handsome family. I hope you had a nice family Christmas. I bet the 2 young ones really enjoyed it!! How fun!!!

yes we did Margie, wish the same to you.
We are just back from Paris and bought a book about irises, it is in a french language.

I found it on the internet aswell: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2706601973/qid=1104360556/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-6184711-0864266

I don't know if it exists in english? which book do you find the best at this time about irises?

John-

Yes it Does Exist Here!
I Too Have that Book...You Will Just Never Want to Put it Down.
It Makes a Nice Coffee Table Book!
(If I Ever Let it Get on the Coffee Table...lol)
Wonderful Layouts and the Greatest Photography!

Hi John, and zztopsoil,

I have never read that particular book. It does sound quite good though. Gosh - - -now I'm going to have to buy it!

My favorite one right now is:
Iris: Flower of the Rainbow by Graeme Grosvenor

One of the best books out there on irises. Great photos and hundreds of them!! The information is quite complete and indepth too - so you get the best of both worlds. It's a hardback book, so it may cost a bit more (unless you happen to find a good deal) I hope you do.

Margie

John, I have that Iris book too in English. The photos are simply dreamy.

Margie, I'd love a copy of the "Flower of the rainbow "book but I see it is sold out all over the place. Do you have a source or are yoiu just teasing us all?

Hi Wanda,

Looks like I'll have to get that IRIS book now. Curiosity is killing me.

I bought my "Flower of the Rainbow" from either Schreiners or Cooley's about 2 summers ago. It was advertised in their catalog, so I decided that if they thought it was good enough to sell through them - - it had to be a pretty good book.

They didn't say there were any limited quantities or anything. I wonder if it's in short supply right now due to the Christmas and Holiday season.

I see Ebay and Half.com are out. Oh look - - I found one or more on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684868520/002-2347967-5386468

Do you have any extra spending money? It's not the cheapest book around. But, it wasn't cheap for me either.

Margie

I must keep that in mind and get me a Visa card, darn

John - lovely photo of your family. They take after you.

My one and only iris book I selected because of Margie's review in the Garden Bookworm. The Gardener's Iris Book

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561585602/qid=1104433107/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_bn1_xgl14/102-1272245-9524161?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://davesgarden.com/gbw/c/44/

Very good all around iris book - especially good for this beginner.

Bren, a friend of mine has this book he will bring it along when he's coming here, he recommended it too.
I got a good recommendation From Margie today: http://davesgarden.com/gbw/c/467/ maybe you know this one?
But next week i have my Visa...........so i can finally buy me some Christmas presants. Everybody who knows me give me money for christmas because i am a difficult person to surprise ;-P so i can surprice myself afterwards and i just know how to do now guys!!! LOL

John, that sure is a lovely photo, and a lovely yard!! What is the name of that purple flowering tree? Is it that green there now? If not - - what is the weather like now over there?

Margie, weather in balancing up an down each day and i made a reply in this thread over here about it : http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/475834/

The tree i had till last summer past away :-( this after 10 years, grrrr
It was a Robinia hispada and found this link for you : http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbarium/trees/robhis01.htm
the past two years we had exstremely dry springtimes and summers.
Even watering has failed, i planted another one last spring but this one died almost instantly.