Ray's Iris Acres Home
7490 Herndon Avenue, Clovis Garden tours

Host:  Ray and Diana Ward

One hour from Yosemite, Kings, and Sequoia National Park rests Ray's Iris Acres.  Clovis has reached out to the point where the land is zoned commercial.

Ray started out the same as most of us, half a dozen rhizomes in hand, one inspiring speaker (John Weiler), and one good bloom season.

The Wards have established their garden in six inch raised boxes overtop of the local hardpan.  For the convention beds, a silty, sandy loam is employed. 

Note the lath house surrounded by Japanese irises.

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Bye Bye Blackbird (Sutton 96) Kool Bre's (Annand 03)
Dancing in Ruffles (Cadd 02) Lady Laree (Barrows 02)
Dandy Candy (Ernst 01) Lightshine (Schreiner's 03)
Dear Diary (Black 02) My Friend Dick (Butler 00) LA
Fancy Notion (Mullin 03) Parquet Lady (Schick 03)
Free Ride (Lauer 04) Piano Man (Miller 01)
Golden Panther (Tasco 00) Picasso Moon (Schreiner's 00)
Hollywood Nights (Duncan 01) Rush Creek (Worel 99)
Jumping (Schreiner's 00) Starship Enterprise (Schreiner's 99)
King Louis (Dunn 02) LA Tropical Delight (Sutton, M 02)