if this iris could talk, it would tell you that its little plant family came to our front garden in Rhode Island in Banjo Man’s suitcase.

if this iris could talk, it would tell you that its little plant family spent a hundred years growing against Banjo Man’s parents’ and grandparents’ farmhouse in Nebraska.

if this iris could talk, it would tell you that its little plant family traveled from Missouri to Nebraska via wagon train at the end of the nineteenth century.

we don’t know where it was before that, but if this iris could talk it might whisper a rumor about daniel boone.