SDB Iris are looking good this year!

?? Are the diploids which includes many MTBs more fragrant than the tets? As far as SDBs I find more fragrance when I hybridize which is the only time I get my nose that low to the ground.

odd - I have dancing lilacs, too, and while it didn't do much this first year for it, it is a completely different color, an extremely pale lilac - which is what I saw it bloom out at Salmon Creek.

That was a really bad shot of Dancing Lilacs. Here's a better one. This pic matches my iris quite well.

Mine is from Superstition, so I have to believe it's correct. It could just be the computer monitor? Mine is blooming with the MTBs and at the right height.

Did you notice the grape kool aid fragrance?

Here's the one from Aitkens, looks like the same one to me. What do you think?

http://www.flowerfantasy.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6114

Bonjon,

I went to the garden and got the flower, and the picture is absolutely accurate. Superstition described it as lavender-orchid. It is a very tiny flower.

Here's a picture taken at the median iris society convention in 2004.

http://www.medianiris.com/images/Conventions/Winners/Dancing%20Lilacs%20.jpg

Does anyone else grow this iris that can weigh in?

I don't grow it, Polly, but yours looks right to me.

Laurie

Love your photo, Polly! It's certainly much nicer than the Aitken's photo.

still, odd, bought mine from Aitken, Salmon Creek, and it matches what I saw in the garden, a very pale light lilac color.

didnt' notice any fragrance

Looks like Dancing Lilacs to me. Aitkens would have obtained them straight from the hybridizer (Stephanie Markham) as they now introduce her plants as well as for her mother, Lynn. I find on some of purple MTBs soil can make a difference in shade, I have a a MTB which has been known to differ in shade in different beds. When it came home from the convention it was the same plant, the gardener had very nicely marked the ones as to the bed.

Thanks Laurie and IrisMA. I wouldn't be so positive had it not come from Superstition. I know the label was kept intact by me, and I have nothing like that, anyway. I think it looks enough like the one at Aitkens to be correct. Mine may look like it's in shade, IrsMA, but it's in full sun, until about 7 PM.

Bonjon, the mystery of the Dancing Lilacs. Sounds like a good name for a book about mystery in the garden. When it's big enough to share, I could send you a piece to compare?

Pirl, thank you for complimenting my picture. I have been taking pictures of medians to practice in anticipation of the sib season. I need to get some decent pictures of my sibs for my website, and with the help of some friends here, I think I'm getting better. I had taken two pictures of Dancing Lilacs, and left the macro off on the first one, and it was really blurry, and of course guess which one I uploaded by mistake.

Superstition doesn't do as much with MTBs. I think their plants came from the ones at convetion when it was held in Fresno so they were from the hybridizer's garden. Very sure they are correct, just a soil difference.

quite possibly. I have acidic soil that we have to work hard to make basic enough for iris. Probably from a total forest cover of oak and pine. Camellias, hollies, azaleas and rhodys love us!

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ah yes, I have to use a lot of lime here too. In the mountains, with all the trees, we are even more acidic than Raleigh.

Spec X Dolce.

A petite flower on a tall stem.

Your photo is so beautiful. Great flower, Polly, and a great background as well.