General garden catalogs

This photo has been going around for most any variegated Iris in these 
catalogs for a while.  I don't know if the plants sold match the plant or 
the description, but I would guess the plant you get is probably usually the 
right one (these places usually broker the plants and share the same catalog 
photos and descriptions from some sort of a clearing house.  If you look 
close you can see that they are often even printed and mailed from the same 
location.

Back to the photo.  It is Iris pallida.  It is one of the two variegated 
cultivars, but it's hard to be sure which one.  The foliage looks like the 
"white" variegated version, but in my garden the two look identical except 
in early spring when the foliage is fresh and not hardened (probably due to 
the hot dry NM summers?).  Anyway, the foliage does go with the flowers, but 
it does also look similar to the foliage of several variegated cultivars.

Dave

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      I have been receiving a lot of gardening catalogs in the mail. I'm
always surprised by the lack of knowledge shown by some established
nurseries. Sometimes even out and out fraud. This ad for a variegated
iris really takes the cake. I don't recognize the bearded cultivar of
the flowers stuck into the foliage. However I think the variegated
plant is Iris japonica 'Aphrodite'. Zone 7 ? Certainly NOT Iris
pseudacorus variegata !
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