Help With A Name For TB

I received quite a few un-named irises in the fall of '06 in trades. Not only did many of the people who sent them not know their names, they didn't know the colors they would be. Most said probably purple or yellow. One by one, as they bloom, I'm taking pictures and will try to find out names that I could research.

I think that many of these plants will be "hand-me-down" type of irises that are passed from friend to friend. Possibly they will be historics. If I can get even a few suggestions on names, I will do more research and look at pictures on-line.

This is the best picture I was able to get of this iris - colorwise. I took pictures three different days, and times of day to try to get the color as I see it. It is a TB, and I noticed that the standards do not stay up as nice as the newer hybrids. They tended to droop, as in this picture. I did not notice a strong fragrance. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Linda

Linda, it does look like one of the old historics. If you click on the links on this site, there are a lot of photos of the old ones. They are really pretty. Maybe Amas? Except your beard looks more all white.
http://www.hips-roots.com/visitors/v-photos/vp-topframe.html

susan

This message was edited May 26, 2008 10:50 AM

Thank you so much for your suggestions susan. I've been spending so much time at the HIPS site and Laurie's site lately, that they should both charge me rent. I had no idea that it would be so hard trying to find out what these noid trades would be. So many look smilar that if the color is off just a bit, it's hard to tell if it is what you have or not.

While Amas does have floppy standards like mine, it seems a bit on the blue side of purple. Mine is a rich, royal purple. I'll go out and check the beard first thing tomorrow, if the flower is still alive. This is the last one on the plant.
Thanks again,

Linda