DARK BLIZZARD is another one with very large blooms, but with very nice color this time. I probably caught this photo during the 5 minutes after opening before the standards flopped WIDE OPEN. It also didn't make it out of the fan in this year of numerous late freezes.
CONCERTINA is a pretty little spaceager who is blooming here for the first time on a nice tall, straight stalk.
My Appleblossum Pink got hit hard by frost over a month ago, but came back and is still blooming. I have a few IBs, but hoping to add more. yours are really lovely, Laurie.
WILLOW WARE is one I've been awaiting for years. Now that it's finally blooming, I'm afraid I'm unimpressed. The form is really lacking on this one. In all fairness, though, it might have looked much better without all the late freezes.
I always have questions about these threads on iris. What is a spaceager? amoena? cv?
spaceager (space age iris) = an iris with appendages extending from the beards. Appendages can be horns, spoons, or flounces.
amoena = color pattern with white standards and darker falls
cv = cultivar
This one surprised me. Not that I don't expect interesting plicatas from Keith Keppel. LOGO is just a whole lot more interesting than most. Actually, I suspect the color splashing is a result of all the late freezes this year.
Laurie - I do love Concertina - and for you in warmer climates, it reblooms and here it's around for almost two months. A great iris with lots of stems and buds.
thanks Laurie. I have see the horns on some irises and also have a couple amoenas
GNU RAYZ is "gnu" for me this year. It's a dramatic plicata, but I sure wish it would have made it out of the foliage. I nearly had to lie on my belly to get this shot! I'm sure it'll do better when it's had another year to settle in.
Laurie~
I have Gnu Rayz and let me assure you, it DOES rise above the foliage. It's really stunning in a clump as well!
GYPSY QUEEN is a small-flowered old gal who is tough as nails in the frigid north. She came to me from a friend in zone 3 NH. There just doesn't seem to be anything these old historics can't handle.
Laurie, you have a way with words that makes me giggle. "Gnu to you" :)
ABBEY CHANT is not quite as clear a yellow as I prefer, and it started to fold its petals just hours after opening this morning. Even so, it's attractive enough if you don't mind bending its petals back into position.
I am very pleased with GODDESS OF LUCK's maiden bloom here. I just love the complexity of colors and pattern.
Laurie --
Here's one from my trade list. Apollo One. This one's only been in my garden 2 years but it needs divided already. Multiplies like crazy.
While this one gets to stay right where it is for another year or two, this one is my favorite IB of the year and I just have to share it with everyone.
Introducing, Jane Eyre.
I had some to bloom close to the ground too, this year. Never had that happen before....
Laurie, do you still have Intermediates opening during your Tall Bearded Season?
Yup, sure do.
I have the same thing. This year my IB's and TB's were almost neck and neck.
I had my last TBs open BEFORE a few Intermediates. the Dwarfs were interrupted by hard freezes in late April and bloomed out of sequence too. A Spring to remember, for sure!
WINGS OF LOVE isn't my favorite pink IB, but it's here and it's blooming. That's reason enough for my appreciation and enjoyment.
BRONZAIRE is an interesting color combination, but it hasn't wowed me in its maiden bloom. I may be more impressed with a mature clump. Time will tell.
CLARA GARLAND finally has her rightful name in my garden. Through a long, contorted, and frustrating turn of events, I ended up with two potential CGs. This last week, I was able to send pics of both to Cy Bartlett, CG's hybridizer, for proper identification. Here is the correct CLARA GARLAND, a vibrant blond with alluring red-brown eyelashes.
And now I have one more to dig for the unknown bed.
Wings of Love isn't terribly outstanding, but she is a sweet little thing!
For a rank amateur, you folks amuse me with your critiques. I think they are all beautiful.
RED ZINGER is putting on a vibrant show this year. My brightest red median.
LOW HO SILVER has staged a welcome comeback this year after ailing for the last several years. Apparently this one is just barely hardy enough to survive severe winters with minimal insulating snow cover. I nearly lost it twice after such winters. Before that, though, it was one of very few irises that ever managed to rebloom here. Perhaps this year I'll see rebloom again!
LOL Rank amateurs? Count me among those numbers.
Beautiful as always, Laurie.
Red Zinger has been in my garden for 3 years without a bloom. Doesn't like frozen buds, apparently.
RED ZINGER took a while to settle in here, as well. Once it decided it was acclimated, it's done pretty well.
An historic IB this time, showing maiden bloom on a short stalk - NAVAJO dressed to impress in fancy pinstripes.
Elizabethtown, where did you get Jane Eyre? I loved that book when I was in grade school... one of my favorites...
Laurief, Red Zinger certainly IS vibrant... lovely, too!
Local Iris Society sale, not sure if FSK or C&P (went to both last year). Not big enough to divide yet and I am having trouble finding a distributor for you. Sorry I can't be of more help. Puttytat placed a picture in the database, maybe has a clue? I think the one for sale was left over from convention in DC perhaps.
Starr--Ihave extra Red Zinger since I just had to move a clump. (How DID it get in that back row? Oh, I guess the bed kinda got bigger.... :) Email me if you still need it.
Laurie, I was noticing my historic has the same color falls as your GYPSY QUEEN. Are there a lot like this?
hooked,
If you visit the following link on the HIPS site, you'll be on a page where you can compare a selection of some historic variegatas. To answer your question, I believe there are quite a few old historics with fairly similar variegata patterns (but I'm by no means well-educated in historic irises).
http://www.worldiris.com/public_html/Comp_variegata/Comparisons.html
I just love these variegatas. Thanks
Gosh, those standards are so translucent!
