Show us your Wild Ones

Childsong

This is Anvil of Darkness after some over spray got it
Boy I which this would stay I like it

Drama Queen

Hermodactylus tuberosa The Widow Iris

Wow, those are wild! I especially like The Widow Iris.

Love that sprayed anvil of darkness! What did you spray? Can you do it again?
Sharon

I think i will spray a lot of mine ^_^

Here is what Earl of Essex looked like it was next to anvil of darkness

Anvil of Darkness is really a sight to see.To bad it's not the result of one of your crosses.

Dan

I found this one pretty wild....standard dwarf RAY OF LIGHT (Thomas Johnson-2005)

a nice new one for me, nice wild pattern but not TOOOOO wild...Wonders Never Cease (TB, Paul Black 2007)

Golly Gee Whiz

Impersonator - tb

Temporal Anomaly tb 2007

Nice Photos... Cheesy and Tazzy. I've been wanting Golly Gee Whiz, guess I'm going to have to find room for it.

Here's one of my seedlings 06-1a

Interesting seedling including the lavender shading of standard's midrib.

ZAC it a beauty !

There certainly are some beauties on this thread. Couldn't even begin to pick a favorite.

I don't know a think about hybridizing and what is important and what isn't but I can tell you, zacattack, that that is a good looking iris. Are you planning to introduce it?

I love that Impersonator, Tazzy! It looks like a JI. Does it always look like that, year after year? I will have to get that one, if so.

yes there is a couple more like it
Flat Rate
is one can't think of others . i love them

Impersonator and Flat Rate, two more to add to the ever growing list! Polly, if you find them first, please let me know where.

I'll be looking for them, Mittsey.

irisMA, tazzy and pajaritomt... Thanks for the compliments on my seedling. Coming from you three it means a lot. I do plan to register and introduce this one. Hopefully it will be available soon.

Hope you have a great weekend, Dan

Hi Dan--how about your BB seedling from '07. Funny things happen to BBs when they come north because of our long cool spring. this yr. 'Preposition' listed at 23" bloomed in our garden at 29" and a bigger flower, although not huge. It tries to be a luminata but doesn't quite make it. However, since I don't have any smaller 48c plicatas I have 3 pods with it on 'Margaret Beaufort' violet, but can thow plics. there should be an answer for many things.

found some more flat tb
1 WHAT A MIXTURE ( BLUE)
2 GAZOO (DOUBE TB WHITE )
3 SIX PACK( LAVERDER)

IN MID- AMERICAN 2005 CATALOG
SO MAYBE PAUL BLACK STILL SELLS THEM
there is a pink too i think Kepple did it still looking

Hmmm Tazzy, it did say Rustler on the tag.

These pics are fantastic!

Hello, irisMA... You could be exactly right about my "hoped for" border bearded from 2007. Preposition, being a Christopherson intro... was grown less than 30 miles from me, and it's pod parent was a border bearded. Both parents of my seedling were tall bearded, so it's very likely it will grow taller in most conditions. I was probably amiss when I said it was a border bearded. It bloomed for the first time in 2004, and I'm sure it was taller then than now. After moving it to it's new location it has remained shorter, possibly due to less sun... and crowding, due to my limited growing space, and procrastination in improving that problem. The photo I posted was taken in 2007, and it averaged about 26" then. It did not bloom this year. It was an unnusual spring, some plants bloomed profusely, others not at all or very puny.

I've moved several rhizomes of my hoped for border bearded to a sunnier location... we'll see what happens. I hope it stays on the small side... but, here's a photo from 2005, that's Tiger Butter behind it, listed at 36", and Persian Berry, 35" growing to it's left.

If all goes well I hope to register it next year. It's been my wife's favorite almost every bloom season.

I hope those 3 pods on Margaret Beaufort give you some beauties.

Good to hear from you, Dan

If it turns out to be a TB in the shorter range I hope you will still register it. There is no rule that says TBs have to be huge. Here in New England with small gardens many of us prefer the shorter TBs. It has a lovely flower & good branching. Your wife has a good eye.

Thanks irisMA... I think it will be likely be a shorter TB. I'm very fond of the shorter ones myself, and have been trying to go that way with some of my crosses. Here's one that I posted on another thread that bloomed for the first time this year at 24". Both parents are Christopherson intros. I have 3 more nice ones from this cross that are 26" or shorter. I thought I would post this photo due to it's somewhat resemblance to Preposition.

Thanks Again... Dan

Whoops... I've seemed to have gotten away from the topic "Wild Ones" How about this one. Prototype, a 2000 intro from Joe Ghio.

Ring Around Rosie

The seedling is 'wild' in a moderate way. It certainly isn't just purple--& I see the resemblence. For those who grow smooth purples, it would be a good focus point. Of course 'Ring around Rosie' could be a center point also, but I would imagine it as the center of an area of lemon yellows.

Is Prototype a sibling to Expose, do you know? Some similar markings although not as defined. Very pretty, Ring Around Rosie too. Nice pics.
Laura

zacattack,
I never understood what you meant by "wild ones" . Very few iris are wild, in my opinion. I guess I would think the purple and yellow combinations and some of the Broken Color stuff are wild. The rest are, and this is no tragedy, beautiful.
I love your seedling which is not the least bit wild as far as I am concerned. I do hope it works out for you to introduce it and for you to line your driveway with it. Your photo of it is lovely. I think your wife is on the right track.
For wild ones, I have never seen these in person, but I rather like the idea of Golly Gee Whiz, and an Italian one I have seen only in pictures, Stilo Libero, and I find Keppels IB Flying Circus pretty wild.
Mostly, I don't find iris wild -- just wonderful. Perhaps arils and arilbreds are the wildest of all.

Hi pajaritomt... what I meant by Wild, were those out of the ordinary iris that don't fall under a certain color catagory... such as Let's see your best Pink, favorite yellow, brightest orange. etc. There are many fancies, broken color etc, that, as you say are beautiful, but also a little on the wild side. Not so much percentage wise in the beardeds as in the Arils or Arilbreds, but there are a lot of wildly colored SDB's. I was just looking to start a thread that might bring some exciting new iris to the forefront, that many folks never knew existed. There are lots of non-member viewers of this site that could be attracted to our passion of iris by some of the more unusual, or wilder iris. I've heard folks say on more than one occasion... "Wow, I though iris only came in white and purple"

Does anyone have a good photo of Leopard Prints, or Minnesota Mixed Up Kid. Those two are good examples. Or, check them out in the plant files.

Thanks so much for your compliments on my seedling and photo. Hope you have a good evening, Dan

Hi Laura,

Prototype, introduced in 2001 and Expose 2004, are both Joe Ghio creations. They are not siblings, but do have something in common. The pollen parent of Prototype, was the pod parent of Snowed In. A sib to Snowed is in the lineage of the pod parent of Expose. I'm confusing myself... Here's the AIS registration booklet info on parentage.

Prototype - 90-45U: (((Tomorrow's Child x (Caption x (Dream Affair x (Artiste x Tupelo Honey)))) x Costa Rica) x (Costa Rica x London Lord)) X 88-180P, pod parent of Snowed In. Bay View 2001

Expose - 95-1: (U92-7A2, unknown, x 93-90, sib to Snowed In) X Impulsive. Bay View 2004

Good to hear from you, Dan

The colors on this one are so vibrant!

Even simple plicatas are "wild" to people who haven't seen them. At the ISM sales we have had a poster with pictures for different iris flowers. Many people have remarked that they didn't know all the colors existed. Then iris people may still be looking for "true red". that is a challenge but I am just as happy trying for winter hardy plants in the differnt colors available.

Okay, now I get it. I have seen Leopard Prints in the catalog, but don't have it. And I have seen photos of Minnesota Mixed Up Kid, which is indeed wild. Of my own, I am not sure I really have any wild ones, but I saw some at the Aril and Median Trek. I have Flying Circus on order but it won't come until July. To me that is pretty wild. Here is its photo.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/87939/