Sometime ,when you're 'just resting", Tom ,check out some pictures of 'Pretty Karen" on the Twiki. it's 'parent" of Raspberry Blush, and to my eye, looks pretty close

Whatever it is I like it!

Thank you, Pam, but not much lacing as are the fancy ones on Kaligazam.
You all are good at coming up with suggestions. I think I need more named Iris so I can help too

coboro said:Marilyn and I don't think it is Dimeadance. It looks too dark and the white edge is too small.
Again, is it fully open? Here's a picture from a couple of days ago by a friend who grows it.

This one doesn't look like Dimeadance -- the falls are darker, and the center of the Iris is yellow, both at the base of the falls and standards.

DaveinPA said:Mary Ann,
try Cosmic Celebration. here is the "throat" picture to compare to yours. note the edges on the standards and patterning around the beard.

There are some similarities Dave -- but the picture of Cosmic Celebration looks like it's white centered. This NOID Iris is definitely yellow-centered. I'll try to get a throat shot this afternoon......

@Polymerous

Polymerous said:Sometimes a NOID is just, and always will be, a NOID.

Oh, my! I am not all that fond of the horns and spoons and such of Space Age Iris, but I ADORE the coloring on that NOID of yours.

Wow, I love the horny, spoony ones! That is soo pretty, love love love it...NOID or not.

When ever I moved that one Arlyn, it didn't bloom until the second year after the move, but then it bloomed it's heart out.

So my question is twofold...if someone mistakenly sends you an un-named seedling, A-do you get to keep it, and B- did they replace it with the one you wanted? And C, can you share it?(I know, I know, that's 3 questions )

A. Of course! I doubt they'd ask you to send it back...
B. If it's a commercial grower they should.
C. Grey area.... I'd ask the grower first.

I would be a little upset if I had made that mistake. Seedling? What seedling?

@lovemyhouse - The space age iris were a new concept to me and I'm not sure that I can say I'm a fan of them... on the other hand, I did purchase a few white ones....they just somehow seemed frillier and fuller.

The problem with that seedling is that I'm not sure if I still have it. The pot that I thought it was in (it had a label), got moved (because it was in a somewhat shady location and did not bloom past the second year). When the iris in the moved pot bloomed last year (or maybe it was very early this year), it clearly was a different iris. (It was also a space ager, but the colors were awful.... tan, murky yellow, not at all pretty. Most likely it was another seedling, another one of the supposed-to-have-been 'Sweet Orange Spice', which is probably why there was confusion in the labels - I somehow labeled the wrong pot.)

The good news is that there was another (unlabeled) potted iris in that same location (I had yanked all of the 'Sweet Orange Spice' labels), that I more recently moved out into the sun. I may have to wait another year (ugh) to see if it is that pastel seedling or not, but wait I will.

(You may be wondering why all of these are in the shade to begin with. Sunny space is at something of a premium in my garden, and all incoming plants get potted up in a filtered shade part of the yard, and may reside there for some while, until they have grown big enough to bloom - and I have figured out a spot for them in the garden. Some of them do bloom in that shady location, which is great. Sometimes I have to put the pots out into the sun, but we don't like having a clutter of pots in that part of the garden. As to why the labeling issues... sigh... lots of reasons (er, excuses) there, but I am laboring to improve on that score.)

The funny thing is, I am not really a fan of NOIDs... I like to know who or what is in my garden. But sometimes you just have to make an exception; something about whichever plant, be it color or form or size or texture, just grabs you and won't let go. If I do recover that seedling (I probably won't know until next year, sigh), I will try to find a suitable spot to plant it out, and let it grow into a patch. At that point, I will decide if it is a long term keeper or not....NOID or not.

The more Iris (and Daylilies and Echinacea and...) I get, the more I want to have identities.

I'm with you there Debra.. It would be so much nicer if they had names. I've got a bunch of blue NOIDs. #1, #2, #3, #4........ I have a hard time with numbers

#1 (Sapphire Hills?)


#2


#3 (Shipshape?)


#4 (Victoria Falls?)


#5

I have a blue noid too.

Lots of beautiful nameless blues. I have a couple too.

Ann, your second one looks like my #4

Arlyn, that bottom blue should be Victoria Falls..it is a hard one to miss! Pretty tall, sometimes jokingly called "Victoria Falls Down". lol

Sherry, I thought so too. It is very tall and yes, several have fallen over :)
Here is my Sapphire Hills if that is any help on that one. Ann

I just found out I have one more NOID than I THOUGHT I had . This was purchased as What Again, about 3-4 years ago, and I really didn't ever "click" to it being wrong until I saw Tom's pic.....then I checked on the AIS site.....sure enough....this ain't it!