Irises: When asking for an iris ID, 1 by bonjon

bonjon wrote:
I'm going to invite all visiting the iris forum to add below names of irises they've bought that were mislabeled.

Lady Friend
irisloverdee is a master judge. When I told her Lady Friend was my first favorite iris, she warned me that Lady Friend had a lot of fakes being sold under that name. She warned me unless I got it from someone that got it from Ghio, chances are it was fake. the difference is the vigor. Lady Friend (mine is the correct one, purchased from Cooleys) is unbelievably vigorous. It averages 10 large increases a year for me.

Starship Enterprise
on the Internet, I believe I counted three smaller growers that have a NoID for sale that "was supposed to be Starship Enterprise and isn't." Starship Enterprise is one of those irises that most experts immediately know on sight. The fakes are never quite "there," never quite have that garden presence, that indescribable "ZING" but they all have similar coloring.

Photo of Mysterious Ways