Thank you, it makes sense...I am just a bit anxious to get all the irises I want

Kei,

I think you'd probably like World Premier.
Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'World Premier')
Scroll down to see all the pictures of it. And note that it got the Wister Medal, so it's one of the very top irises.

DaisyDo said: Kei,

I think you'd probably like World Premier.
Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'World Premier')
Scroll down to see all the pictures of it. And note that it got the Wister Medal, so it's one of the very top irises.

I am in love with world premier...what a beautiful Iris!!! I will order a few of them! well, maybe a dozen...



Thank you Daisy

Some other reddish bearded seedling, not out of Daffy Duck.

19T-20f


19T-34b poor quality picture of a dinged up flower. Hope it gets better treatment from the weather gods this spring because it could be interesting. Or not


19T-29f


17T-28e


17T-28f

17T-28e really grabs your attention with it's bright color combination.

To all the above irises.

19T-34b is interesting! Hope you get a better photo of it this year.

The color on 17T-28e is stunning!!!

GreenIris said: The color on 17T-28e is stunning!!!

Paul Black's Border Bearded Iris (Iris 'Kiss the Frog') probably isn't for everyone, but I think it's a wonderful iris. It has really nice plant habits, blooms exuberantly over a long period of time, and has a fairly unusual parentage.

For all of those reasons, I've used it quite a bit in hybridizing since it was first introduced. It seems to be quite fertile. During 2019 in particular, it set pods at a higher rate than average and its seeds germinated at a higher than average rate. That created sort of an amplifying effect so somewhere around 1/4 of all of my 2019 TB seedlings involved Kiss the Frog.

When the first of them starting blooming last spring, I was thinking oh boy, this is going to be a bust. They were all ugly and/or uninteresting. Like these:





Much better ones bloomed as the season went along, though, and several of the crosses involving Kiss the Frog ended up being among my favorites of the year. Many of them have pretty dramatic brown or gold beards, which was unexpected.


19T-01c
Very very blue, which is nicely set of by the veining and the old gold beards


19T-03g
Not unique by any means, but I like the big brown beards and the white style arms hint at something unusual in its genes


19T-04a


19T-04d

Possibly my favorite cross of all from 2019 was 19T-08 which involved Kiss the Frog and this TB seedling:


Two brownish/greyish irises that might be described as dull produced seedlings in an amazing array of colors.

a.


b.


d.
Blend of cream and light blue, can't think of anything else quite like it. It's a very soothing iris to look at.


h.
I find the color of this iris to be a bit unpleasant, but kept it anyway


i.
This is pretty much what I was aiming for with the cross, a modern version of an old Sass iris called Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Desert Flower'). It won't appeal to a lot of people, which is probably why there haven't been many similar irises introduced since 1955, but I kind of like tannish/brownish irises, especially if they have some purple/violet accents.


k.
Darker version of i


g.
This may be my favorite seedling ever. It's very old fashioned shade of lavender that I don't think I've seen in an iris before. The veining in both the standards and the falls jazz it up nicely


As the flower ages, it becomes greyer, but still a pleasing color to my eye

I'd call that last one shades of mauve.

In my opinion, d and i are definitely the standouts from 19T-08.

KentPfeiffer said:
b.

This one if my favourite . I like the veining on the falls and bright yellow beards

Totally_Amazing said: This one if my favourite . I like the veining on the falls and bright yellow beards

I really like this one too.

19T-01c and 'g' of that last bunch are definitely worth having.
I hope they have the other traits necessary to make them candidates for introduction?

Too soon to say. With the maiden bloom, all you really get is a sense of whether you like the flower or not, and maybe a general impression of the plant habits. All of that can change in subsequent years. So far, they seem to be chips off the Kiss the Frog block. Excellent growth, heavy bloom, nice branching and bud count, etc. Most of them produced multiple bloom stalks last spring, which is very unusual for first year seedlings here. We'll see.

Totally_Amazing said: This one if my favourite . I like the veining on the falls and bright yellow beards

I also think that iris is just wonderful. I would buy it.

Well, I have Kiss the Frog and if its offspring is anything like it, you are off to a good start.

I really enjoyed your sharing of the vast variety of seedlings you are getting From Kiss The Frog. I love brown Irises too, well better put, I like having the variety of the Rainbow to choose from and brown falls in there. I love B and I. I reminds me some of Green and Gifted.