Thank you all.

Marilyn, and Diana/Don. I hope all medical procedures go well!

lauriemorningglory said: Marilyn, and Diana/Don. I hope all medical procedures go well!

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Dear iris friends, I love this thread and see it became quite recently. I just looked at Irisi Hills Farm's website. I never ordered irises from them before. But its website has a picture that caught my eyes.
can anyone tell me what the names of the deep blue, white and brown, saturated yellow irises are?

Hi Sucrose, I'm afraid there are just too many yellows to be able to ID the yellow. The brown and white kind of reminds me of Chickasaw Sue, but there are likely many others with a similar color pattern.
You might come up with some possible names for a dark blue---I believe there was a blue iris thread in the past.
But your best bet for correct identification is to contact the owner of Iris Hills Farm.

lauriemorningglory said: Hi Sucrose, I'm afraid there are just too many yellows to be able to ID the yellow. The brown and white kind of reminds me of Chickasaw Sue, but there are likely many others with a similar color pattern.
You might come up with some possible names for a dark blue---I believe there was a blue iris thread in the past.
But your best bet for correct identification is to contact the owner of Iris Hills Farm.

From a picture of multiple cultivars, it would be impossible to identify them by name. The best way would be to contact Iris Hills Farm.

I suspect that deep blue one may be Dusky Challenger. I have that one, as you can see here. It was #1 on the Tall Bearded Iris Symposium popularity poll for decades. I love it.

That brownish plicata might be Chickasaw Sue. See the photos of it at Border Bearded Iris (Iris 'Chickasaw Sue')

Oops, Laurie I see you had already suggested Chickasaw Sue. So that's two of us who think it's that.

Daisy, a good guess with Dusky Challenger. Yesterday on one computer screen, the iris looked blue. Today on a different screen it looks purple!

Sucrose, are you looking for the exact identities, or do you just want to find something similar? The folks here would have many good suggestions for similar irises.

lauriemorningglory said: Daisy, a good guess with Dusky Challenger. Yesterday on one computer screen, the iris looked blue. Today on a different screen it looks purple!

Sucrose, are you looking for the exact identities, or do you just want to find something similar? The folks here would have many good suggestions for similar irises.

Hi Laurie, I am very happy with both you and Daisy's suggestion. I actually have dusky challenger for 2 years but did not see a bloom yet! The rhizome unfortunately got bitten by animals and just barely survived. Hope it will bloom for me this year.

DaisyDo said: That brownish plicata might be Chickasaw Sue. See the photos of it at Border Bearded Iris (Iris 'Chickasaw Sue')

Thanks. I like the Chickasaw Sue's picture. I always love the chocolate browning colored iris.

Well, I am limping around with my left big toe all bandaged up. Yesterday I went to a sugeon who permanently removed my big toenail. And in two more days I go to hopkins to have a nuclear scan of my lungs, a 6 m8nute walk test, and an initial consultation with a doc in the pulmonary hypertension clinic. He will then set a date for me to have a right heart catheterization. Th last one was billed at over $22,000. Thank heavens for original medicare plus a good medigap supplement!

And we finally have an appointment for Hubs to be seen at the JHU hydrocephalus clinic. This may not be "atypical Parkinson's after all. His brain ventricals are BIG! It could be what's called "Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, mimicing Parkinson's. If that's the case, a shunt would help. Maybe I'm grasping at straws, but I think it's worth a tap test to see if a shunt would help.

Prayers Daisy. Hope all goes well.

I get so tired having to do things like reviewing actual MRI images and telling docs what they really ought to be doing. How does anyone without medical training advocate for themselves in today's horrible medical system?!

I mentioned my husband's huge ventricles to the neurologist, and her response was that we'd talk about it at the visit in May. Meanwhile Hubby is a little worse every day. So I did an end-run around her and got an appointment with the experts in the JHU hydrocephalus clinic in May, so that will place us 3 months ahead in scheduling, in case a shunt turns out to be appropriate. That could save Hubby 3 months of decline in the meantime. Am I impatient? Yes, I am, considering that I knew hubby was having neurologic problems at least by 1992, but the docs waited until he was falling down and drooling before saying he has "atypical Parkinsons." just 5 years ago. Yes, I am sick to death of their foot-dragging.

Our medical system itself is sick and needs to be fixed.

Daisy...feeling for you.

Thanks, Jan.

Here are a couple of photos showing what normal cerebral ventricals look like in comparison to Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).




Now here is the MRI of my husband's cerebral ventricles.


Now you tell me why the docs have been dragging their feet on this! It has me furious for my poor husband!

Daisy, I am so sorry you and your husband are dealing with so many serious medical issues. I hope you can find some doctors who are more responsive.

Andrea, thanks. And I am also sooo glad that I aced my course in neuroanatomy back in professional school.

I have read that 80% of all cases of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus go undiagnosed (until autopsy.) It's no wonder given how all the neurologists seem to drag their feet with regard to testing. I have been to several neurologists and never did find out why I have non-diabetic neuropathic burning pain. The last one I went to, I asked, "Are you going to do any testing to try to figure this out?"

He said, "No,"

I said, "Bye,"