Black Stallion



Gizmo the Gremlin

We bought 8 or 9 arilbred iris from Superstition last year. Refiner's Fire was the first to bloom.
Several others have stalks forming and lots of increase.

Our second potted NoID Louisiana iris bloomed and the first one opened a second bloom.
Both stalks are a little stunted. Must have been the lack of rain in most of January and February.

'Refiner's Fire' is nice... love the play of colors.

This season for us is crazy early. I just spotted two bloom stalks on one of our Spuria iris.
The Louisiana beds have over 20 stalks already. No color, but lots of stalks.
Many to most of these iris usually bloom the middle of April.

Got a question about those AB Irises -- do the falls always have that re-curve to them?

Many times.

That is one of the characteristics of the oncocyclus arils. On pure arils they can be so recurved that they almost roll up.

Here's a link to a photo of Sheik with very recurved falls.

http://wiki.irises.org/bin/vie...

Interesting. It's a form I'm not fond of --- I like the flaring falls of Irises. But that's a very pretty bloom (Sheik) -- it helps a lot of you just think of it as a different flower.

Muddymitts said:Got a question about those AB Irises -- do the falls always have that re-curve to them?

It a characteristic that some people like and some people dislike. Often it's a phase in the life of the bloom. A new bloom may be tightly re-curved and then let the falls relax as time goes along until the re-curve is gone or much less pronounced. That's particularly true in arilbreds. I've found that most of them relax the falls after a bit, but I have very windy and usually warm conditions which may shake the re-curve out more than in cooler climate with less breezy conditions.

Another aril opened and another IB

Ginger Spice by D Foster
The second photo shows the recurved falls like Donald mentions in his post.
I'll try and remember to retake the shot is a day or two to see how much they relax.



The IB is Double Overtime by Rick Tasco. Just in time for March Madness.
It's a rebloomer that bloomed this past fall and winter.

Morning and afternoon...

Gizmo the Gremlin



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Think I have identified my mystery Iris. Looks like Brigadoon. Has the bloom time, height, purple-based foliage, form, unique coloring, and distinctive beard (it also bends in the wind when that wind is continous ). Top two photographs are from yesterday afternoon, next three are from this morning. What do you think?
Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Brigadoon')
http://wiki.irises.org/bin/vie...

Debra

I finally have a stalk on a TB! It's Full Tide. I'm pretty sure it was one of the first to bloom last year.

A couple more Arils opened.

Rare Spice by Doris Foster


Turkish Heart by Howard Shockey


Pure as Gold, a reblooming TB by Bill Maryott



Three more of Joe Ghio's PCIs are opening.

Drive You Wild-it's very vigorous for us. Rampant might be the better word.


Idylwild


Bar Code-it originally came to us as Line Drawing.Then we got another Line Drawing that was different.
I checked and the second one was correct. I'm quite sure this is Bar Code.

Debra,

The only way to truly know if it is Brigadoon would be to do a DNA test. Cost might be prohibitive and you have to be sure that the one you are comparing it to is the correct one.

That being said, get a piece of Brigadoon and grow it next to it and compare them when they bloom. Bill Maryott taught me to tear the petals off to be able to compare all of the beard and both sides of the petals.

But you have so many things the same, call it Brigadoon and be happy.

Congratulations. It's nice to put a name to a flower.

How very beautiful they all are. I just told hubs that I went through this thread and HAVE to get more iris !
He said to tell y'all thanks a lot ! Thanks from me too but I really mean it

[quote="coboro"]Debra,


That being said, get a piece of Brigadoon and grow it next to it and compare them when they bloom. Bill Maryott taught me to tear the petals off to be able to compare all of the beard and both sides of the petals.


IRIS ABUSE!!!! IRIS ABUSE!!!!

Darcy!

The good news is that humans are unable to hear flowers scream.