DaisyDo said:And I never select irises for their names. That's simply not a consideration in deciding how my garden will look. Names may be fun, but they don't make a landscape look good.
I'll take a pretty, well-formed, vigorous NOID with clear colors, over an appealing name associated with less than agreeable form or muddy color, any day of the week. Names are merely marketing ploys, and I'm not buying a marketing ploy.
I both agree and disagree with this.
Many a plant has gotten an invitation to my garden
because of the name, either for the name alone, or the name in combination with certain traits. Not all such plants stay - if the plant is really awful, then it goes, despite any name considerations or sentimental associations. (I had to punt a daylily which bore my mother's first name; the blooms were muddy and awful.
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But if it's "good enough" (and some, for my taste, are quite good), then it stays, and I find a spot or a way to make it work. That's how I got irises 'Glacier Point', 'Total Recall' (a rebloomer), 'Lord Jeff', and 'Lovely Lois', for some that immediately come to mind. (Three A.M. winners, one H.M. winner in that lot.)
As for the NOIDs... well, it seems that I am keeping at least some of them, because they turned out to be acceptable plants (if not quite what I was expecting).
