Carolina Gardening: Yippee! Eastern N.C. Iris Society's fundraiser almost here!, 1 by bonjon

bonjon wrote:
I cannot WAIT. It's July 17th. So excited I'm going to BUST.

It's going to be in north Raleigh again this year. We are trying to organize a later sale over at Sarah P. Duke gardens, but Bob and I haven't worked that out yet.

Happen to know we are getting only east coast grown irises this year, so these will grow better in our Carolina gardens. I still have difficulties whenever I plant irises from the west coast, always lose a percentage of them. The "westies" often take an extra two years to adjust to our humidity. Not this year! Even so, we are getting all the same hybridizers. And we have an order in for lots of rebloomers, too! Oh - I'm going to be there helping set up and break down. But for the 1st 30 mins., I'm going to be SHOPPING!

Here's a photo of a short iris I took last year in one of the gardens supplying irises this year