What flower pattern is most prevalent in your iris garden
For those of us whose iris won’t bloom until June, I thought I would give incite a bit of mathematical activity to keep the rest of us busy. My iris are just peeking through the earth and I have almost 3 months of enviously looking at other people’s blooms before mine erupt in long-awaited glorious color. I was curious what was the most prevalent flower pattern in your garden? After looking at the ATP plant database and documenting the flower pattern of each bloom, I discovered the following about my iris:
Amoena 10% Favorite
Bicolor 7% Favorite
Bitone 8% Favorite
Blend 17% Favorite
Broken color 4% Favorite
Emma Cook 2% Favorite
Luminata 2% Favorite
Neglecta 2% Favorite
Plicata 26% Favorite
Self 15% Favorite
Variegata 6% Favorite
For those of us who do not have 100’S or 1000's of iris, I did my compilations in percentages so we will all be on the same platform. I am sure that my list does not have all of the possibilities of flower pattern; in fact I did not know I had an Emma Cook or a Neglecta until I checked my plant information from ATP. It will be interesting to see the propensity for flower patterns in our gardens. Enjoy doing a bit of mind-opening math.