Re: Gerald Darby ?

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Amazing isn't it how things can get mixed up? But, I guess not really. They go through so many hands, and if a label just gets moved a little to the right, or a seedling starts, you've got what you think is one iris, but it's not.

I would like to see your suggestion played out with some of the older irises. I think you would find quite a bit of variation.

Now that we've got the internet, and the new hybrids are being posted as soon as they are introduced, it should help with that problem.

--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@...> wrote:
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> I visited the RHS garden at Wisley once when they had assembled a few
> hundred samples of what nurseries were selling as "Shrub famous
> name". I can't remember what it was, but it was one of the
> landscaping classics, grown by the million.
>
> It was startling to see the variations. The idea was to sort out
> which were correctly named and get the wrong ones renamed, I think.
>
> It would be an interesting exercise for one of the AIS test gardens to
> do. Or perhaps one of the conventions could have half the host plants
> new ones, and half whichever old one needs to prove itself true.
>
> Diane Whitehead
> Victoria B.C. Canada
>