[PHOTO] Yaquina Blue

You all may have noticed I've been posting my pics alphabetically, but 
I'm going to jump around a bit with today's set to accommodate a few 
requests.  I'll go back to alphabetical order tomorrow.

YAQUINA BLUE (Schreiner, 1992) TB

After its first winter here in MN, YB managed to produce a very short and 
deformed stalk with only a single bud.  When that bud opened, however, it 
yielded a flower at least half again larger than ANY other iris bloom in 
my garden (almost grotesquely big, IMHO) that made me rather grateful it 
didn't grow a normal sized stalk.  I can't imagine how a tall stalk could 
hold up several of those blooms at the same time, and I don't have any 
extra metal fenceposts lying around at the moment with which to stake it! 
 ;-)  The bloom was so large, in fact, that the standards seemed unable 
to support their own weight properly and assumed a rather unattractive 
posture (to my eye).  I surely cannot fault the color, however.  It 
produced the truest dark blue in my garden - undeniably gorgeous.  
Hopefully some of these other problems will disappear after YB has had 
another year to acclimate to MN and my garden.


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laurief@paulbunyan.net
http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
zone 3b northern MN - clay soil

 

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