Moiris said:
Iris Hart. Your photo looks very different to me. Yours has distinct veining with alternating white and purple lines around the beard. The other is a diffuse lavender without the veining.
I don't have time to search right now...maybe later.
The color can be a matter of lighting, the specific camera, and the browser a person does the viewing with. You've probably noticed-- I think most people have -- that an iris can look blue in one light, purple in another, and even lavender or magenta. The clarity of the markings around the beard can be a matter of how clear the photo is -- which is why I asked Barbara what she remembered. The beard color is the same as far as I can tell. The description of the beard is whitish on the tip and yellow closer to the throat. The iris I have has distinct yellow coloring closer to the throat. You just can't see it that well in the photo.
So, that's what I am trying to figure out -- whether the differences in the photos are real or in fact the actual irises are exactly the same. Too bad someone else doesn't have one blooming right now. I don't see anything else in Nola's catalog that matches -- and they haven't answered my email. The other thing is, Long's Peak is close in alphabet to Midnight Magic. A lot of the hybridizers seem to keep irises in roughly alphabetical order on their land in order to help them find each one more easily.
