Help Please. I lost the label

I bought some iris tubers from Ace hardware at 75 cents each last year. I didn't expect them to be great for the money but in a new yard you can't buy top quality everything or we'd be bankrupt. They were all named varieties but the d... rabbit removed the sticks I put in and then the wind the blew them away. This is the first to bloom, I think its gorgeous and would like to know who he/she is!! Can any of you experts help?

Edited to say the falls are about 4" long and the standards around 4" high.

This message was edited Apr 16, 2005 3:07 PM

Could it be Going My Way?

It looks to me like "Rare Treat" - look at the Argyle Acres site and see if this is a match.

I looked at my picture of Rare Treat and it looks like the one you have there, okus. Can someone tell me how to put a photo in my message?

oops, never mind, found it!

Here's my Rare Treat.......does it look like yours?

How very beautiful...I'm just getting started in growing Iris...and I LOVE this one...gonna put it on my list to watch for! Jo

And here's Going my Way for a comparison. Hope I helped.

Going My way has wider purple then yours. Weegy's looks much closer.

Rare Treat looks right to me - thanks everyone.

How about Creative Stitchery?

Cant you see a whole bed just full of these clumps? Now I got to find more room . . . Mitch

Maybe you could go back to the same store this fall. Iris sold in stores tend to be the same ones every year - tried and true. See if there's a purple Plicata there.

And if it's an Ace Hardware, I'd ask them now. The people at mine are always ready to help me with strange problems.

I'm glad that the bunny ate the tag and not the Iris.

Hi doss - that rabbit is a pain in the ... but he doesn't seem to like iris thank goodness! He eats a lot of other stuff though - one day he will be rabbit pie!
Thanks for the tip - I will ask the very helpful Ace manager next time I get down there.

I think that it's a good idea. I saw 3 similar plicatas in Schreiner's catalog that aren't named here yet. You could be doing this for a good long time. Let us know what you find out.

Just wanted to show you all Houdini which opened today. I got it last year and had no idea. Just snapped this photo about an hour ago.

It is so unusual. What a treasure to find. It must feel like Christmas.

Hi my friend! It was a surprise...this one is here at my house, not in the garden!

wow - I have Iris everywhere cannot get to many

Well, 75154 - Everywhere? I know what you mean. I have them in as many places as possible. Do you have a favorite?

You know I get most of mine by finding them in old lots with no names . . I have called I think almost every land owner in the state looking for a few people who had them somewhere in their field. I just have to try to get one or two (never taking the whole bunch just some sides). 9 times out of 10 they say sure getum if ya want them. I think the old single white Iris has to be my fav. just because of where all it grows - it really wants to grow and bloom... all though I love the "Midnight" . . . too many to pick from.... Mitch

That's always the answer. Mitch - you're an historian. Good for you to keep the old ones alive.

Historian or like the people on my block call me "that plant nut"
Got to do my part right - and hey the price is right . . .

You don't look like a plant nut from this angle. I wonder what planet those folks are living on. :-)

It might help I have dress forms in the front yard covered with vines and old farm tools up against the trees. . . . but everybody does that right?

Oh my gosh... I don't know what it is, but it's beatuiful!

They where used way back when to make the shape of a dress, mine are all metal so it kinda looks like a row of ladies standing out there in bloom.

Fabulous. I saw a story on TV about some rare plant collectors and people would come to parties and step on their plants. They hung brightly colored bicycles in the trees and all of a sudden people began to look for other surprises. They didn't have any more problems. What are your vines that are blooming. My Clematis Niobe opened today!

I have black eyed susan vine, 7 diff morning glory (not very big yet), Dutchmans pipe, Kiwi, and English Ivy. They are all wakeing up for Spring right now but soon my ladies will be here again.

You can say that again that they will be big vines. You must keep your snipping sissors handy at all times.

Every day snip a little right? Thats nothing I have honeysucle and trumpetvine together on the back fence with the house behind us - that is a pruning job but really a nice look together.

75154...since I don't know your name, may I call you 75? That is easier....LOL

I would love to see pictures of your yard art...did you post pictures in the Garden Art Forum?? Jo

Call me Mitch - no not yet . . ... . . .I guess I should when they are in bloom this year I need to get them all on there. I have a really strange yard I guess but I like it and thats what counts right? Mitch

Be sure to let us know when you post them. Then you should be putting them on the vine forum. I'd be they would love to see them.

please post pic it sounds wonderfull
i use it all if it dose not move in 5 min. its got a plant in it
and i call it yard art LOL

Tazzy....then if I visited you I would be turned into a Yard Art? You know I need a golf cart to move fast!! See ya at the KY RU! Maybe if you went early your DH could catch enough fish for Friday night dinner! Jo

Hey Tazzy just get the Kazu ready go grow on RoadRunner!
Being new at the site I have been slow to post photos - want the yard looking really really good first, guess I just have to jump in . . .

Mitch....it won't grow on this Roadrunner...I move around too fast and too often...HMMM Red Oak, TX...I must look that up and see if it is on my way to TN....hehehe Jo

might be are you coming down I20? we are 10 min or so off I20 in the heart of Dallas near I35.

If I get a ride to TN I will be going right around Dallas...my Sis in law lives in Denton...but I don't go there anymore...just keep on going up to Texarkana...other wise I'll be flying into Nashville to go to the KY Round Up...ya'll should go...last year we had someone from Dallas join us. Jo