Wisconsin Irises

At Last ! ! ! !

I love the old historics .

(From my dear friend & enabler Wanda)

Anne Newhard 1940

Edited 'cause the name I had wasn't even close

unk Iris is her name for now

This message was edited Jun 15, 2005 9:04 PM

hope I have all the names right.
Dumputer was down for a few days and I made notes on a pad while snapping pictures.

Then I had to go to Wally World to get the pics on CD so I could show all y'all... tee-hee



BURGUNDY PARTY

one of my favs, she's HUGE




UNKNOWN

This message was edited Jun 15, 2005 9:42 PM

yummy ........






EDITH WOLFORD

a wee bit beat - up by a rain storm ...........



EVENING TIDE

FALL FIESTA

MAKING WAVES

*sighs*
unknown

This message was edited Jun 15, 2005 10:33 PM

Nice irises, all, Scooterbug, but you need to check your IDs on ART SHOW and CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE. You can see good examples of the accurately identified AS in the PDB (zacattack's pic is particularly good). Yours, I'm afraid, doesn't match.

Although your CE is in the same color class as the real CE, it has a much older, more tailored form than the real thing. CE has modern, ruffled form with pretty much horizontal falls. Again, you can view pics of the real thing in the PDB.

Laurie

pretty little girl ..........




unk due to mislabeling

This message was edited Jun 16, 2005 10:49 PM

Beautiful Iris!!!!

Judy

Thanks a bunch Laurie , I appreciate it.

Only my 2nd year with irises so I need all the help I can get ............. as usual ,lol

CE was a WalMart find ............ grrrrrrrrrrrr

Art Show didn't feel quite right.( that was the only bloom,too )


PINK BEAUTY (historic from Wanda)

Laurie

here's another shot of CE ('-'?)

the blooms were almost finished and laying on the ground cause I ran out of stakes ... ;'(

This message was edited Jun 15, 2005 9:16 PM

Hiya Judy, TNX

RADIANT APOGEE

This one makes quite an impression when given as a cut flower




RARE TREAT

Pretty colors make my eyes happy ...........

........... happy eyes feed my soul

soul food ? lololol

I wouldn't trust the identity of any iris purchased from a "mart" or large retail store like Home Depot or Lowe's. These retailers purchase irises in bulk color lots and then package and label them with the name of any popular registered iris in the same color class. Lots of times they don't even bother to label them with an iris of the same color. They just seem to pick any old name and photo out of a hat and slap them on the bags of irises for sale. Many of the mart irises are actually unregistered, culled seedlings from large iris hybridizers. Bottom line is, you never know what might bloom from a mart rhizome or whether it will look even remotely like what you thought you were buying.

Mart irises are fine as landscape plants, and many of them are perfectly lovely irises, but IMO they should only be grown as unknowns and NEVER traded or gifted to anyone with the mart name attached.

Laurie

SUPERSTITION

ah yes , so I am learning.

I stopped buying from big box stores last year after Wanda clued me in on the shenanigans going on with them.

Thanks , I'll treat CE as I would any unnamed plant that happens to be a fav.

I will look for the real CE soon and give these away as unk's

got this as a generous bonus from Leota's

Then I went and lost the tag

It had just been recently released ? ? ? ?


UNKNOWN (for now )

anudder one ........source Leota's Iris




MYSTIC DRAGON (Cadd) '2002






This message was edited Jun 17, 2005 8:09 AM

unk yellow

another historic from Wanda

darker than Anne Newhard




unk

lilac colored historic from guess who ?




ORCHID BEAUTY

This message was edited Jun 17, 2005 10:17 AM

Heeeeeyy !

Where'd that dang squirrel come from ?

Winter playtime in the iris beds.

WELL ENDOWED

ZIGGY

ICU for storm victims ............



thats it for tonight. Thanks for looking.

S.

I'm afraid you've got MY GINNY mislabeled, too. Check the PDB.

Yikes, MONTEVIDEO isn't right, either.

hmmmmmm, got that one from a Co-Op here.

Thanks

You know I'm really feeling good about this that I will not be passing on any bad or wrongly named iris.

The same way I feel about my brugmansias.

I got it now.

I promise to check for correct ID's before posting in the future.

(lesson learned)

I hope you didn't take any of my corrections as criticisms or an attempt to restrict your postings in any way. I just like to avoid confusion wherever possible so folks don't go out looking for the same iris you're growing and end up with something different.

I like to double check IDs by first referencing the AIS registered descriptions, then finding as many photos as possible online to compare to my own. I've found half a dozen mislabeled irises in my own beds this year!

Laurie

re: "I hope you didn't take any of my corrections as criticisms "

Not at all Laurie, I think it is nice of you to take the time to do this.....

do you have a link to this 'AIS registered descriptions' that you speak of?

At www.irisregister.com you can access 1960-1989 for free via download or pay $10 year and get up to 1999. The other option is to get the Checklist print version by the American Iris Society.

This message was edited Jun 17, 2005 7:31 AM

Thanks but what about the newer cultivars ?