RE: Re: 'Gerald Darby': Seeds, Descriptions, Nomenclature

 

Because I have an iris display garden and an almost obsessive need to know the names of my unknowns, I've bought a 2nd and sometimes even a 3rd iris, trying to confirm an iris id.  Most of the time though, the id's I've confirmed or re-confirmed were through plain old serrendipity, that is 2 iris blooming on opposite sides of my garden, suddenly making my brain twitch.  One labelled in the nursery bed, and one in the landscape, for example.
 
El, Ste Anne, Manitoba Canada
 

To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
From: pollykinsman@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:17:17 +0000
Subject: [iris-species] Re: 'Gerald Darby': Seeds, Descriptions, Nomenclature

 


Diane, if you have ever read posts on Dave's Garden, you could understand why I would not do that.

A person has an iris they can't identify. Normally a bearded, but not always.

They post a picture on Dave's Garden and twenty people come to the rescue with what they think it is. The poster picks one and says, "it's this one!" Oh come on. Now it gets passed to friends, neighbors, and traded on Daves Garden, which is a huge site, under the new name.

I never wish to contribute to that.

On Cubits our rule is that if someone posts a picture, you may make suggestions what the iris might be, but it's strongly suggested to the poster to then purchase that suggested look alike, and grow it side by side to the other, and make a determination that way. Of course, who actually buys the second iris to do that? They will spend their money for a new iris first, but we try.

I have three large clumps of not Gerald. I will label it as such, and it will be mine, all mine, LOL.

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