I started a dark iris thread back in April and don't know how to move it here, but I copied my first posting and here it is:
This is the last group I had picked out pictures for and I just haven't had time to post them until now. All are tall bearded except as otherwise noted. I hope others will post pictures of their darks too!
no pictures either. However 'Before the Storm' survived being under ice.
SDBs
Black Lightning (Chapman), Bad Intentions (Black),
TB Foreign Storm
IB Midsummer Night's Dream
Betty I think I used your "borrowed" photo.I have it in my files.
This is Nabcys Lace in bloom first time in the garden last spring.I think its dark enough to be a "dark" iris.
Very nice Betty and Jo Ann, one more added to next year's list! Oh my
Here's a pic of before the storm, I know I have a better one, but can't find it right now.
Midnight Treat
Well, I had others, but it's not letting me upload any more.
Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
Its jumping the gun here but I will recieve a bonus from Mid America
Name Game
maybe I aught to wait til it blooms LOL.I am so excited.My order arrives at 4 o'clock.I will pix and post on the other thread.
Well -- Betty's *Nancy's Lace* and JoAnn's *Nancy's Lace* don't look anything alike! This is the part about Irises that is soooooooooooooooo frustrating!!
Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com)
I take pictures of blooms on both the first and second days, and I've noticed that I always like the 2nd day pictures much better. The petals seem to relax much more and give that flowing ruffled look that I like so much. And I always have trouble with dark colored blooms too. I've discovered that if I can put a brighter light source somewhere behind the bloom it will look more like the real color of the bloom. But sometimes I just can't get that light source, so the bloom is lighter in the picture. That first picture of NANCY'S LACE that JoAnn posted was taken before I discovered the "light source" trick, and three of the four pictures in the second group of NANCY'S LACE were taken after I figured it out.
O K Thats why I go to a Plant File or database of some kind.Websites images are sometimes manipulated so one never knows the true color.
Database plants are photoed in a real garden setting and give a better idea as to color when in mine.
I believe Bettys Nancys Lace was taken in shade.Mine is in more light.Also soil is a factor.
Color is important to me so I even go asfar as Googling a plant to see how the color varies if there are more than three images of the same plant.I never trust the website version.
I have a Mid America imahe of Here we Go and the actual bloom in my garden is much more beautiful
But love "Before the Storm", and almost any thing by Jim Hedgecock! 
...Arlyn
IB Star in the Night.........I can't get the color right on this one...it is much darker
TB Raven Girl
