Of swans and irises

Posted 5/17/06

By now, almost everyone in Sumter knows the World Famous Iris Gardens got their start when H.C. Bland, an automobile dealer who was an ardent horticulturist, threw some Japanese iris bulbs into the edge of the lake, having given up on trying to grow …

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