El,
You are to be congratulated for taking those measures to be sure
your irises are properly identified! Good for you. Isn't it funny how
sometimes the names just come to us out of the blue?
Do you have
pictures somewhere of your display garden? I would love to see them.
--- In i*@yahoogroups.com,
El Hutchison <eleanore@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> El,
Ste Anne, Manitoba Canada
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> To: i*@yahoogroups.com
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From: pollykinsman@...
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:17:17 +0000
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Subject: [iris-species] Re: 'Gerald Darby': Seeds, Descriptions,
Nomenclature
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> Diane, if you have ever read posts on Dave's Garden, you
could understand why I would not do that.
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> A person has an
iris they can't identify. Normally a bearded, but not always.
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> 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.
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never wish to contribute to that.
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> 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.
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> 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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