CritterPainter Knows Their Stuff

 Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Location: Washington State Posts: 1193
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: Best garage sale find this season |
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Stopped at a garage sale today and there, with a big Free sign on it, was a big box full of iris rhizomes!!!! I know it's a bit off-season to expect them to do much, but goodness, how can ya top that? Got half of them in the ground today, I'll try the rest tomorrow.
Aren't garage sales funny that way? there'll be scads of things I don't offer a second glance to, that the seller puts a high price on. Then something like a huge box of plants in the free pile. O well, mine is not to question why...
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dooley Official Garden Turtle
 Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Location: Arizona, U.S.A (Map) Posts: 3131 PlantStew: 2 |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:47 am Post subject: |
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That's true. I got those canna roots for free at a yard sale. Sometimes I've found plants for not too much. Great find on the iris rhizomes. I need to thin my iris's a bit. Dooley
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CritterPainter Knows Their Stuff

 Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Location: Washington State Posts: 1193
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Saw some unbelievable yellow ones blooming in a road median. I'm looking forward to seeing what color I've got, though I'm not much into the bronzey ones.
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dooley Official Garden Turtle
 Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Location: Arizona, U.S.A (Map) Posts: 3131 PlantStew: 2 |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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My favorite is the blue ones but I only have purple and white and one yellow. Dooley
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glendann Official Garden Angel
 Joined: 19 May 2006 Location: Texas (Map) Posts: 6158 PlantStew: 182 |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: |
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You hit the jackpot Critter.Love garage sales like that.I love all Irises But Heather has a three color bronze yellow and wine beautiful.
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eileen Moderator & Resident Taxonomist

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Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Location: Scotland (Map) Posts: 10463
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:51 am Post subject: |
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WOW lucky you Critter - now why can't things like that happen to me?!!
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bethie Highly Skillful

 Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Location: WestTennessee (Map) Posts: 1590
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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It will be exciting when they start to open.
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Netty Chaotic Gardener
 Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Location: Southern Ontario zone 5 Posts: 4011 PlantStew: 1385 |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Lucky you! Last summer I found some boxes of Iris at the side of the road with "FREE" written on them. I snatched them up in a hurry! Some of them are about to bloom.
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Pianolady Showing Great Promise

 Joined: 02 May 2006 Location: Zone 4b Iowa (Map) Posts: 430 PlantStew: 258 |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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You did hit the jackpot! Great find.
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CritterPainter Knows Their Stuff

 Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Location: Washington State Posts: 1193
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Wow Netty, that's just nuts! How can anyone have too many iris's? Especially to go to the trouble of thinning them, o well, I may eat my words in a few years. I've got them in 5 beds and am scouting out the next place to plant. Probably the end of my driveway, but I think I'll wait until rain is in the forcast for a few days, as it's too far to water them. I got a daylily to establish down there, iris would be a nice addition to that.
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Netty Chaotic Gardener
 Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Location: Southern Ontario zone 5 Posts: 4011 PlantStew: 1385 |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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I was tickled pink when I found them! They look like they will have purple blooms. Just my luck though, all my others are purple! Oh well, you CAN'T have to many Iris!
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stratsmom Flower Fanatic
 Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: Southern Oregon (Map) Posts: 723
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hot Diggity Dog! Talk about good luck!! You should have bought a lottery ticket that same day
Deanna
p.s. you have a gold mine there! I was wandering through a local nursery and they wanted $7.99 and up for a single iris!!!
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CritterPainter Knows Their Stuff

 Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Location: Washington State Posts: 1193
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:08 am Post subject: |
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LOL! I should have bought a ticket for sure. I've been running such a string of bad luck lately, you'd think I'd be all over a good streak!
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