Re: CULT: Impressive Bloomers

Hi Walter,

Where are your pictures of these lovelies?

Char Region 8

wmoores@watervalley.net wrote:

> All sorts of bearded irises are blooming at the same time.
>
> GOING BONKERS, SDB, is reblooming and the second bloom
> doesn't look anything like the first.  I wonder if it is a mutant ninga or
> a sport.    I had to help both open because they got hung up in the
> sheath, probably wondering what they were doing in such an
> unfriendly climate.
>
> BEES KNEES, SDB, knocked my socks off this morning.  What a
> petite cutey pink this is, out of the foliage and showing branching
> with at least three buds.  All of the others in this class have not
> made it out of the foliage so they couldn't show any branching if they
> had the potential.  Another thing, the flowers on this are so dainty
> and flared, I thought it was a short MTB.  If it is fertile, it should be
> used with MTBs.  Maybe somebody already has.  Most SDBs don't
> fare well here, so when I have a good one, I want to let everybody
> know.
>
> BYZANTINE ART, AB, makes me think Lowell has an umbrata AB.
> Anyway, this cannot be mistaken for another.  The red 'signal'
> covers just about all of the fall.  Linda, are you reading this?
>
> Want some distinctive brownish irises?  MAUNA LOA FIRE and
> FERROUS FANTASY are outstanding in coloration and branching.
> I certainly would have hated the job of registering these because
> they are indescribable.  MLF is striped with yellow and FF is overlaid
> with reddish violet.  Brown is what you see at a distance, but closer
> inspection shows the differences.  I have heard some irisarians say
> they don't like brown flowers.  These might change your mind!
>
> A visitor read the tag as 'Polish Manners,' and wondered how that fit
> this gorgeous satiny dark violet TB.  I removed the dirt covering the
> 'ed,' and we got a laugh.  POLISHED MANNERS is one of Keith's
> not getting much publicity, but it is a dandy, the satiny sheen almost
> blinding like the reflection of the sun on a car windshield.  It's that
> bright.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA (Tempted to pull down the sheaths of the
> ROMANTIC EVENING children showing color, but knowing better).
>
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