You people will have me checking all the blue median flowers for turquoise. We do have SDB Tu Tu turquoise, of course. I don't seem to have blue BB irises, working so hard on keeping them in class to worry too much about color.

lovemyhouse said:ooooooh...wow...(awestruck indrawn breath, here) that is an incredibly lovely color

Wow, this in an old thread. Is the iris still around and do you have pictures?

I don't have those irises, but I am guilty of digging up old threads.

Glad you did Evelyn, I really enjoyed reading it!

Wish Marvin Davis was still active on NGA. I recently got his TB Crucial and am really looking forward to seeing it blooming here.

iciris said:Glad you did Evelyn, I really enjoyed reading it!

There are so many experienced iris growers on this website, and so much enthusiasm and generosity. Besides reading my books, I am learning a lot from "digging up old threads"!

Everyone!

lovemyhouse said:Wish Marvin Davis was still active on NGA. I recently got his TB Crucial and am really looking forward to seeing it blooming here.

Glad you posted Debra, hope you are safe! Please take care of yourself.

diggit said:On my color meter in my head, turquoise is on the left side of blue and violet is on the right side. If you go far enough left you find green. If you go far enough right you find red I suppose. I read a description once that said 'turquoise blue violet' and I thought , "gosh I'd like to see that color". I guess that's why they have color charts. But when I think of turquoise or aqua I am definitely thinking on the green side of blue. I will go find a pic of 'Stan Coates' and see if I want to grow it. Keep talking.

I have been searching for a true sky blue iris (to me that is a blue with a smidgen of green in it - see my post "Looking for a true sky blue iris) for years and was referred to Don Spoon who is the hybridizer and owner of Winterberry Iris Gardens in Virginia. He's been working on getting the same color and has been somewhat successful with the SDB's. He tells me that his TB Iris 'Procrastinator' is the closest that he has come so far with the larger irises. I bought 2 of them from him and am crossing my fingers that this is closer to what I'm looking for. He's fascinating to talk to and has a science background so he approaches his hybridizing from a genetic standpoint as well as just for beauty's sake.

I have been chasing after both blues and greens to grow for 5 years. And I do have lots of Don Spoons. The one I have seen both Turqoise Blue and Turqoise Green on is Blues Clues(SDB). It was the veins that were this color and such gorgous shades of color. So glad as well someone resurrected this thread and I see all the blue green daydreaming going on. I have done tries at crosses with blues and greens as well but so far no seedlings. Also as mentioned Tu Tu Turqoise does have Turqoise veins. If you blow up picks you can see detail.

Elsa ~ Please keep us posted on your crosses and maybe you will be the one who has that breakthrough. And if you have any new pictures that are not already in the database, I am sure that we will be happy to look at them! Good luck!

Evelyn: For this past year, I posted all my blooms to database. There are some blues and greens

Do you have a list? Are these ones that you have bred?

diggit said:I know there are some who adhere to the notion of working only with vigorous, well branched plants. I must admit that I have also on occasion been known to preach that sermon. I'll admit that I expected runty plants when I selfed the seedling with the extra turquoise. So I was not surprised to see spindly stalks and runty plants. Like I said it was on a 'whim'.
However, I do see some educational value here for not only myself, but others who someday may take up the cause and they will be armed with the knowledge that such a color is possible and maybe with better observation and selection and lots of patience...

we will be rewarded some day with a beautiful white ground plicata with bold turquoise veins and stitches shining in the dawns early light.

Wow, I was almost getting poetic there.

Have you seen Aquamarine Dream at Blue J Iris? Aqua Taj at Iris Warehouse?

Aquamarine Dream looks like a dream for the 2018 wishlist and Aqua taj looks interesting as well. Thanks so much for these suggestions

Also I did put some pics out in the Questions for Hybradizers thread of my brief but highly enjoyable hybridizing history. Hope that Sheri sees that you don't need much experience to start having some fun with it. I can add that I had no successful seed pods from my green or blue/ green crosses this year but I will keep trying😀