Kent already posted some wonderful Neglectas over in the Amoenas thread, which prompted me to post this thread to share these beauties. And of course I'm hoping that others will post pictures of theirs too!
RAINY RIVER - My favorite neglecta!
MYSTIQUE - My second favorite!
ICELANDIC SEA
STARS TURN OUT
SNOW MELT
I don't know if this last one is really a neglecta, but I think it's so pretty that I just had to throw it in. The first two pictures were taken in the shade in my garden and they looked really blue, and the last was taken at Mid-America and shows the true colors. So would this be considered a neglecta or a bitone?
LUXURY RUFFLES
Kent, I'm hoping you can go over to your post in the Amoenas thread, get into Edit, and copy everything in your neglecta post to also bring it over here so we'll have them here too. Is that possible?
A neglecta is a bitone which has light blue Or perhaps violet standards & dark blue or violet falls. All classes have the color. Here is MTB 'Twilight Calm'.
Thank you Lucy! And Variegetas have yellow standards, right? I'm so glad you were able to explain this. I just don't know that much about it, except I think that Neglectas are basically blue bitones and I believe Variegetas are yellow bitones/bicolors. Is that right?
Betty, Once again I have to say you are a great photographer! Rainy River is one of my favorites too. I'm a bit fuzzy in identifying these, but I think these two are in that class, if not, I'm open to learning.
Cranberry Swirl
Made of Magic
Is a neglecta a subset of bitone? Kent Help! lol
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A variegata has yellow standards & red falls. It is named after the species of that name. Many MTBs originaaly came from that species so all irises of that color have the term.
The falls look more brown, than red in this picture of my husbands iris, but it is the coloration. A bitone pink is a bitone, not a special name as it showed up in hybridizing not in the wild. Pink is a recessive color in irises. Back to neglectas---
So Lucy, would EXTROVERT be considered a variegata, or is there too much going on in the falls to be one? I really would like to learn about variegatas.
And thank you, Tom -- that's a nice compliment. I just use my little Nikon Coolpix with the auto focus, which means I can't get good closeups, and I just sort of stand there swaying around trying to get a good shot. And I always have to take a few to get one good picture that's not out of focus...
I would think so. The yellow underneath the beards would be a 'zone' like you get with white on the falls of an amoena. Colors in TBs are getting too intricate for me.
Kent, I'm hoping you can go over to your post in the Amoenas thread, get into Edit, and copy everything in your neglecta post to also bring it over here so we'll have them here too. Is that possible?
We're learning about the color classes. We all know that bearded irises are divided by height into different classifications, but there are quite a few color classifications also. Now we have learned that neglectas are bitones in the blue and purple colors only. So anytime you see an iris that has light blue standards and deeper blue falls, it is a neglecta.
