What Beardeds are up now? #5 - can you believe it?

'starship enterprise' 'starship enterprise' ...............

Sue - Maybe this will resolve the lavender issue for your 'Boysenberry Buttercup'.

Here's the description off of Sutton's website. (Lauer'97)S.It. creamy yellow; F. lavender, lighter rim; sweet scent.

And a description from Blue cloud iris.
(Lauer '97) TB S. creamy yellow; f. lavender; white/mustard/yellow beard; ruffles
Hope that this helps.

I know that some of the photos have flowers that are more intense - like the plant files and Schreiner's. But I'm more apt to rely on the description when identifying iris. Photos can do funny things.

You are some very bad people indeed! LOL I am almost out of yard and the kids still like to eat!!

The Suttons description fits the bill. I did notice that about the color of Iris on Schreiner's on other Iris I have researched. The 'Creamy Yellow' can be misleading if you are looking at it and saying 'Cream' or 'Light Tan'. But in the Iris World maybe they don't have Tan but a variation of yellow........here I go again............

Now here is a kicker from Schriener's website: Boysenberry Buttercup's large flowers are distinctively colored. the light creamy yellow of its standards creates an alluring contrast to the rich boysenberry color of its falls. This child of our own Best Bet and grandparent, Edith Wolford, has a captivating sweet fragrance.

Did you read: Child of Best Bet and Edith Wolford............can I kill myself now? I feel like ...............Wine anyone?

LOL. Too much time in the sun perhaps for me? LOL!!

No, don't kill yourself. Were'nt you clever???

Schreiner's colors are awfully bright compared to how mine are blooming. Their catalog is practiclly florescent.

Gotta get back to work or I won't be able to afford my garden habit.

My iris garden is glorious right now--open to tour if you're in my neck of the woods. Just give me a holler--i can always get free....

Yep, Schreiner's is another "bright photo" spot. Leotas is another. I'm sooooo grateful for the plant files. That's another thing about Blue J that's interesting. They have a link to the DG iris plantfiles at the top of their pages. I've never bought anything from them before this spring, but I think that it's brilliant.

A link? Do you think they could be a member of Dave's Garden?

I don't know. I called and asked them if they would mind us putting some of their images on DG. They were right in the middle of Iris season though so she said that we could talk about it later. Nice folks.

Here are the last 2 stalks of Iris from my back yard. Decided to cut them and bring them into the house to enjoy. This is Fantasm and Voluminous.

Susan

Beverley Sills, Impressionist, and Sugar Blues are blooming in the garden today. Things just keep surprising me.

OK Doss ;
we want picture OK ?
LOL Or did you get dumped like i do posting pic some times i just get web site not responding
i just hate hanging in cypher-space with half posted picture

No, Tazz. I jut have posted those photos of those Iris a million and a half times. I thought for sure that people were sick of them. It is fun to have Bev Sills reblooming though. It doesn't always happen. I'll go take a photo of it today if it's still good looking.

I still have quite a few up right now because the weather stayed cold and rainy here up until a few days ago. Here are some of my favorites:

Zandria

Six Pack (Tall Bearded class, but called novelty because it has no standards and six falls):

Here's Ebony Angel:

Street Walker:

Heavenly Encore:

Ravishing~A really nice, big orange one!

Whispering Spirits~

Okay, last one, I promise! Here's "Carnival Ride"~

Flowerfrenzy - I am just blown away. I have ordered a couple of these for next fall and I can't wait. Especially 'Carnival Ride'.

Don't stop!

That is different. Thanks for the pics.

"Whispering Spirits" and "Carnival Ride" are siblings from the "Ring Around Rosie" line. Out of the two, I definitely favor "Carnival Ride". This is the first year I've grown it, and it's really that colorful!

Okay, doss~you asked for it!

Bad Cad:

It's All Good:

Grateful Citizen:

Bruneau Jasper:

Spouting Horn:

Lovely Senorita:

Solar Fire:

Prototype:

Lip Service:

I have tons more, but I'll stop with this one so I don't hog up the thread! :]

This is "Vapor"

Thanks for the cyber tour.

WOW! love lip service, carnival ride, vapor, and zandria. is zandria really that blue?

daylily~

No, Zandria is more of a deep (yet bright) purple, but I find purples and blues can be kind of hard to photograph.

ff, it's still pretty!

So hog away! I'm thinking everyone is happy with your beautiful cultivars. I hope that you're putting them in the plantfiles. Some of the Iris you have don't have any photos attached to them in the plantfiles.

And, as far as blue and purple photography. I agree. Fiddling with the white balance on the camera can make a huge difference I've noticed.

Thanks for the pointers on the blue/purple problems. I'll give it a try!