Hello - I want to add plicatas to my garden, but I am looking for specific traits. I was hoping people could chime in on their favorites. Any height classification, although SDB are my least liked. Firstly, I am really interested in bud count and scape strength. I love the look of most plicata colors and patterns I've seen photos of, but I really love the look of an iris with both white or near white standards and falls with plicata edges. I don't care if the pigment in the edges is pale or dark, but there is just something dramatic-looking to me when the standards are patterned too. Historics or new intros, I don't care - I'm really wanting a punch of contrast in the iris beds. Thanks! I hope I will see a bunch of photos

Jesse's Song won high awards, is very vigorous, and as you can see from the pictures, forms a marvelous, floriferous clump
https://www.google.com/search?...


Marry the Night has gorgeous contrast and was a winner in an international competition in Europe a couple years back. https://www.google.com/search?...


Ink Patterns is exceptionally floriferous, and I love the way the edge pattern looks like blanket stitching.
https://www.google.com/search?... .
Zoom in on the edge detail in this photo:



Chickasaw Sue is a lovely historic plicata in coppery shades. https://www.google.com/search?... .
I love Nancy's (Bloomer's) picture of Chickasaw Sue in our database:


Starwoman is a beautiful Intermediate plicata. https://www.google.com/search?...

Thank you so much, Daisy! I'm especially enamored with Ink Patterns. I love it when members add clump photos because I like to see how far above the foliage the blooms are.

A couple I have that I like:

Magic Ring:


Yonkers:


Nickel:


Tagline: (database says "emma cook" pattern--is this a subset of a plicata pattern?


Partisan: (is this a plicata?) one of my favorites


Easy As Pie: (is this a plicata?) one of my favorites

My understanding is that the 'Emma Cook' pattern is independent of plicata genetics.

'Tagline' and 'Easy as Pie' are not plicatas, but 'Partisan' almost certainly is (it's not listed as one, but one of its parents is a plicata and the other is at least a plicata-carrier, if not a plicata itself).

I have these two, and love them. Both very vigorous:

Joshua, what rules out Easy As Pie as a plicata?

lauriemorningglory said: Joshua, what rules out Easy As Pie as a plicata?

Hi Laurie, 'Easy as Pie' is classified as a blend, as it doesn't have the plicata pattern (stitching, stippling or dots).

https://theamericanirissociety...

I was going to mention how Easy As Pie is so reminiscent of one of my absolute favorites - Early To Rise. When I went to add it to my want list I saw that Early To Rise is one of the parent plants! I'll be adding a lot of that one to my garden.

I love striped plicatas. Line Drive is only 20 inches tall. I prefer it to Finish Line because the standards on Finish Line flop open.

I also love the dots on Celestial explosion

I have Art Deco and a noid. If you like the noid, let me know, as I need to divide it this year.
Art Deco

NOID

IrisLily said: I have Art Deco and a noid. If you like the noid, let me know, as I need to divide it this year.
Art Deco

NOID

I love the NOID! When I get home from work I'll message you my address. If you do divide it you can let me know how much per rhizome and shipping. I'm nearby in Virginia too. Thank you so much for the offer!

So many plicatas through the ages.. but I think any colection should include 'Blue Shimmer'..


Stepping Out


It would be hard to pick any of the great plicatas that Rick Tasco has introduced.. They're all good..
'Broadband'


'Splashacata'


'American Original'


'Autumn Explosion'-reblooms


'Mariposa Autumn'- reblooms


Keith Keppel's email is plicata man, and he's had some great ones too..

'Drama Queen'


'Ghirardelli Square'


'Foolish Dreamer'


I could keep going, but I'd be at it all night.. So here are just a few..

Those are great ones, Sherry!

Here are the plicatas that grow well for me and have nice sturdy stalks that withstand our winds and storms. There are more, I just don't have time to list them all.


Barbados


Desert High


Desert Trails


Fire Danger


Flash Mob


Magic Ring


Plum Loco


Steal Your Heart


Stitches


All By Design


Tamali Time

Wonderful!
Your TB's are blooming.
Looking forward to more pictures.

Sherry and Tom, thank you for those gorgeous photos!

Australis said: Hi Laurie, 'Easy as Pie' is classified as a blend, as it doesn't have the plicata pattern (stitching, stippling or dots).

https://theamericanirissociety...

So it is the stitching, dots, dashes or stippling, etc that makes a plicata, while a smooth transition to another color would be a blend or emma cook.

cinvasko said: I was going to mention how Easy As Pie is so reminiscent of one of my absolute favorites - Early To Rise. When I went to add it to my want list I saw that Early To Rise is one of the parent plants! I'll be adding a lot of that one to my garden.

Oh, yes--pretty colors!

lauriemorningglory said: So it is the stitching, dots, dashes or stippling, etc that makes a plicata, while a smooth transition to another color would be a blend or emma cook.

Yes, although the Emma Cook pattern can have a very rapid transition. There are some patterns not mentioned in that blog post, as well as new ones yet to be named. If you have the time, there's an AIS webinar about them here: