Re: RE:Getting the joke/Thornbird
Patrick Orr wrote:
>
> Speaking of Thornbird, I grew it this year to see what it REALLY looked
> like.
>
> Every picture I have seen of it has been different, COMPLETELY, and I
> understand the shading varies depending on location.
>
> ....
>
> When I returned from Dallas, TBird was blooming in my garden, and WOW, what
> a different look it had to it! It really looked VICTORIAN in my garden, so
> I had to take a picture of it.
>
> I am sad to say, however, that my picture couldn't grasp the true color of
> this flower, no matter what angle or flash I tried to capture it, but I came
> pretty dang close.
Wow! Was it really anything like that pale?
The form and appendages look like Thornbird, but yours seems almost
white. Mine is a much more obnoxious darker color. And I've grown it
since a year after introduction.
Gerry, thinking that whover came up with the name "Shear Horror"
deserves the Nobel Prize for iris names, passing Allan Ensminger, Tom
Burseen, and Brad Kasparek
--
g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
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