I agree Mary Ann. You probably have to go about hybridizing with a scientific eye. And throwing away and ugly little iris??? One of our better known growers in the southern part of the state recently said that after paying a lot for a certain iris and having it not bloom for three years he pulled it up and threw it on the compost pile. groan. one of the members of our society, I will not mention any names, refer to him as the 'iris murderer'.