TB bloom so far...

OK, I found my diagrams for the irises, and after much double
checking believe this to be accurate:

LIVING LEGACY
LADY FRIEND (beautiful violet-red) -- flowers bit the dust early
WELL ENDOWED (was it ever!)
CRANBERRY CRUSH
DAZZLING GOLD (reminds one of lion/tiger colouring, yellow and dark maroon)
LILAC WINE

The last just opened today, and could be my favourite so far.  One
thing I hadn't noticed in the other TBs (and in others I have seen
over the last five years), is that if you look straight down at
the iris, it suddenly becomes an IRIS -- three petalled, with
a glowing yellow-and-lavender stripe down the centre of each 
standard.  This gives it a rather lovely 3D effect -- like
the catalogs from the front, like a totally different flower
from above!  In adittion, the beard was beautiful:  the falls
are a rather dusky wine colour, the beard mostly orangish
yellow -- but right as the beard sticks out just over the
falls, the beard and that tiny spot on the falls are a bright,
bristly purple!

I also saw my first species iris at a nursery here -- I bought
I. setosa (ALASKAN Iris?) as well as Moraea and Dietes.  I
saw the infamous I. pseudacorus and several Louisiana hybrids,
which were beautiful, but I'm not yet ready to give 'em the
TLC they need in this relatively dry and alkaline part of TX.

Gotta admit, those TBs are bee-yeautiful.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@mpd.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
Jill O. *Trades
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