How about just straight pinks? I plan to start another thread for the pink/lavender, pink/purple and pink/burgundy combos.
PICTURE BOOK -- My absolute favorite pink!
CAST OF CHARACTERS - My second favorite - Not exactly just straight pink, but it has no lavender, purple or burgundy in it.
DRIFTING BUBBLES - Ah, so serene and beautiful!
LARUE BOSWELL - Check out those beards!
GUARDIAN ANGEL
STAR APPEAL - The pinkest one I've found, but it isn't as bubbly ruffly in my garden like the first five are. These three pictures were all taken at Keith Keppel's.
Pigs In Space - these pictures aren't very good, but they do show what a bright little iris it is
The last two might not qualify as pink iris, but they do have some pink on them
Fashionista and Florentine Silk - I like Fashionista the most, but Florentine Silk appears to be the better grower
Absolutely beautiful, Kent! I'll be starting a thread of pink/lavender, pink/purple and pink/burgundy bicolors in the next day or so myself, and those last two are just about my favorites!
I sure hope everyone is starting to get jazzed about spring by now -- and by around the end of next month I should be getting my first blooms for the year -- hope hope hope!
Depending on the cultivar & place in the garden, they start early May. Our garden has quite a few micro climates for not a very obvious reason. It blooms west to east for some reason.
Interesting! My iris beds in the front yard (east side) always seems to start blooming a couple of weeks before those in my back yard on the west side.
I'm not a 'pink' person either except when it comes to flowers. I have a peach BB seedling which is great except that it doesn't increase very much. I want to fix that trait & with luck not losing the color.
The 2nd photo is a first yr. plant & have to study that one.
I love FASHIONABLY LATE and purchased it last year, and I hope it will bloom this spring -- and I just hope it looks as good here as yours does, Aruba!
And Lucy, I really like both of your medians too. So are you thinking you need to cross the peach one with something else to increase its vigor, thereby increasing the increases on a resulting seedling?
Betty its one of the best growers I have it blooms every year here and really stands out in my mixed bed I get a lot of people that come during bloom season stop at that one the color of it is really bright. I was wondering if you had any full pictures of your Iris Beds with all the different varities you have all bet they are spectacular in full bloom.
Dot I like the picture of Cast of Characters pretty flower and good form.
yes, I like the peach flower, but needs to be crosses onto a more vigorous plant. Good point: it has pollen. Bad point: it usually blooms every other year. When you like the TB irises, remember others had to work to get them. I think about 100 increses of the plant are needed for introduction, that's why the brand new plands each yr are so expensive. As more of them appear then the price can drop as there are more of each one.
I don't have a lot of pink selfs, but here's a few, some are duplicates I know, but what the heck, I'm for sure going to get Keppels new Strawberry Shake though.
Brazen Beauty and Wise Wish (Well,it has pink standards anyway.)
Jennifer Rebecca tries to rebloom most years, but it's too late in the season and it gets frozen before it re-blooms. I'm 5b, so it might work in zone 6b.
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