On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, we attended the Garden Walk at Boerner Botanical Gardens.
The topic was Mighty Iris.
The guides were Wisconsin Iris Society members Karl Becker and Bonnie Sonntag.
It was raining, but it started off very well when Nancy won the door prize book:
The Iris Family: Natural History and Classification (2008)
by Peter Goldblatt & John C. Manning
Timber Press, $79.95
The guides talked about the various aspects of growing Irises inside before we headed out into the rain to visit the bedraggled Iris collection. Most of the Iris collection had already finished blooming, but many examples of tall bearded Iris were in the peak of bloom. Too many of those had been beaten down by the wind and the rain.
I always enjoy it when the guides are enthusiastic evangelists of the plants, and these two guides were definitely that. They both have an encyclopedic knowledge of Irises.
Educational and informative, well worth attending.
Counts as 1.0 hour MGV continuing education credit.
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