I have seen some cultivars in the database where every photograph looks like an entirely different cultivar. It can make it impossible to get a consensus as to what the dang thing really looks like!
But I have also noticed that certain peoples's cameras seem to rather consistently make iris foliage look more neon green- yellow, whereas certain other photographers' cameras rather consistently make the foliage bluer. And that, I have to surmise is a camera effect. Some cameras are just off a bit. And when I have a neon-green foliaged picture on the same cultivar page as one with blue green foliage, there can be quite a difference in the depicted bloom color as might be expected. I then find myself forced into taking a mental average of the two to try to get a sense of what the cultivar actually looks like.
Sharp dressed man is one that I think I'm going to have to get! I think it would be gorgeos between golden panther and solar fire. I want to make a small "hot" garden separate from my others.
The "flatties" are interesting. I suppose eventually we'll have some very different-looking breeds of iris, much like we have very different looking breeds of dogs. Just a matter of time and selective breeding. The flatties look like they could be hybrids between Japanese iris and German iris!
Monty, we do have our things in common. Glad you love iris, classical music and follow your own paths just as I do- you a millenial, and me an early baby boomer.
Just an aside here - I want to mention an iris that I believe may have deserved more attention than it has gotton: "Sweeter than Honey." Go look at the pictures of it in this article.
https://theamericanirissociety...
Now that's an example of beautiful form in an under-awarded iris. I think I am just going to have to get that one!
