Polly, those 500 were actually added over the last two years. The Cubits intro was written at the beginning of 2010. It's been an extraordinary two years, though. For one thing, Cliff at Eurodesert Roses shut down his business and had to dig up thousands of mother plants and get rid of them, so I bought way more than 100 from him -- huge roses, with canes the size of tree branches.
Betty, thanks a million for the links.
I had always thought that PCI just stood for Pacific Coast Iris -- the plain ones that grow wild here, like these:
And PCH is Pacific Coast Hybrid, the fancier ones that are hybridized and not wild:
