Doing in Spring what should have been done in Fall...
In 1997 from upper left: Bob Bauer, John Coble and Sherman
anticipating another great growing season in Michigan!
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Doing in Spring what should have been done in Fall... In 1997 from upper left: Bob Bauer, John Coble and Sherman anticipating another great growing season in Michigan! |
| In 2004, Midwest Living Magazine did a feature article about the Japanese iris at Ensata Gardens and overwhelmed us with catalog requests and iris orders. But we really think that it was the photos of the iris that made people buy the plants! | |
Our 40th year growing and selling Japanese and Siberian irises by mail order. We used to have the largest collection of Japanese varieties outside of Japan, about 450 varieties, but now only have about 100 cultivars.
| Garden Scenes from Ensata |
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 A Bed of Japanese irises |
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Japanese Irises by the raked gravel pond... (the iris are planted in a plastic lined bog !) |
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In Winter, we used to devote full time to Bauer-Coble STUDIOS, a stained glass studio which we founded 48 years ago. We no longer make or sell stained glass.
~1981 when we thoughtwe would specialize in Spuria iris. Things change !! |
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| One of our windows in stained glass | Bronze casting |
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