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Article: What to do in Northern California May.(Tips & trips)(Geographic overview)
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- May 1, 2007
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Visit an iris garden
This is the only time of the year that the general public can visit High Sierra Iris and Wedding Gardens, and it's not to be missed. Located in a community of specialty growers outside Placerville, Nancy and Mike Visman's color-saturated garden (normally open only for special events) is packed with blooming daylilies, roses, and--the star attraction--1,600 varieties of hybrid irises; 20,000 flowers in all. If you'd like to grow them yourself, Nancy's taking orders for late-summer shipments of rhizomes. She does all of the garden work herself. "It's a hobby and it's a labor of love," she says. 10-5 Tue-Sun or by appointment; ...
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