Re: RE: Historic Identification Request
Patrick , This is a real beauty !!! If you do happen to find out who
she is , please let us know. I'd love to be growing this in my yard ,
the style arms are out of this world. Goodluck on getting horned or
flounced seedlings from your cross with Black Hope.
Chris Darlington
Blainville , Quebec
> Patrick Orr wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, a rhizome a friend gave me last year bloomed. He purchased
> it from a nursery that gets about 80 of them a year from a little old
> lady that lives near them.
>
> They pot the rhizomes and sell them as "purple" irises. No name.
>
> For those of us growing it in the Phoenix area, this iris is carefree,
> disease (rot) resistant, free flowering, great branching/bud count,
> produces increases like a rabbit (I have six increases so far on it),
> and I I have two crosses out of two tries successfully forming seed
> pods on it right now. As an added bonus, the flower is really
> pretty.
>
> Once it bloomed I recognized that it had a really old form and is most
> definitely a historic. I would really like to find out the name of
> this cv, and figured with all its different colors and patterns it
> shouldn't be that difficult to identify. I have been through the
> historic website, and did not find any iris there resembling this one.
>
> So I am asking for your help. Does anyone recognize it, or know of
> someone I can get in touch with to find out? I would really like to
> find out.
>
> Patrick
> Phoenix, AZ USA
> Zone 9
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