As we are finishing up our first couple of weeks in Logan, we have discovered that these people love their summers, and they cram as much as possible into them. Winter is great for skiing, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, etc, but it is also long, extremely cold, and a majority of time is spent indoors. Thus, the Visitor's Center puts out a weekly calendar of 'events'. the number of which is unbelievable for a town of 50,000. There are often multiple things happening on the same day. The events are things like symphony performances, plays, operas, concerts, improv comedy, art shows, farmer's markets, and flower shows. The first flower showing of the summer was showcased this weekend at the First Presbyterian Church: The Iris Show. This kind of stuff just hits my sweet spot.
We walked into the Presbyterian version of the fellowship hall to find hundreds of iris. They were displayed singly as well as in arrangements. We met a delightful woman (Joan) who divides her time between Indiana and Logan, Utah. She's got iris in both places. In Indiana she has over 100 varieties in her garden, and she was also showing in the Logan Iris Show a really gorgeous arrangement using a variety of containers. She was an enthusiastic teacher explaining that there are thousands of varieties of iris. They do 'come up' each spring without having to be replanted, but they don't divide and multiply each year like lilies. They bloom from late March/early April until late June. The earliest bloomers are the dwarfs, with the ones of medium height next, and finally the tall boys. Iris are judged on several criteria including having a 'terminal bud' (a flower at the top of the stem), how straight the stem is, and whether or not there are multiple buds on a stem. We saw little ones, giant ones, two toned, single color, iris that were almost black, and ones that were actually a pearl gray.
However, why talk about flowers when you can see flowers. Here are the pictures:
https://picasaweb.google.com/jalyss1/2012UtahIrisFlowerShow?authkey=Gv1sRgCPXtisjDtrezkgE#
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