Greeting from Cascadia Iris Gardens!
2012 is going to be a wild year for us. We are excited to announce that we have purchased a new home, increasing our growing area from 1 acre to 5 acres. This will give us plenty of room to expand the varieties of iris we offer, increase Patrick's hybridizing efforts, and have room for other area hybridizers to grow some of their best seedlings.
We are mid-way through receiving an historic collection of Japanese iris from some very good friends of ours. We have many seedlings: Patrick's Japanese and Pacific Coast, as well as Carla Lankow's Sino-Siberians and Cal-Sibs (that amazing cross between the Sino-Siberians and Pacific Coast iris). We will also begin production of a few select Bearded iris for future sale.
This year we will host the Region 13 Spring Convention for a tour of our garden on June 2nd (for information, go to www.aisregion13.org). Patrick is also hosting a Judges Training seminar on Japanese iris scheduled for Saturday, July 7th at 1:00 PM. There will be a lot of good information, and anyone is welcome to attend.
After all this is accomplished, we get to move about 2,000 iris to the new homestead--not an enviable task.
Because of all this, we are forced to shut down our 2012 sales on May 1st, offering only spring shipments this year. Also, we will not have any Pacific Coast or winter blooming iris available for sale this year, as we will need to move them this spring. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
We look forward to offering you a full selection of iris and shipping dates in 2013.
Patrick & Margaret
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We are located near Woodinville, Washington, and we are open by appointment only. So, if you are in the area and would like to schedule a visit, please contact Patrick at Patrick@CascadiaIrisGardens.com or give him a call at 425-770-5984.