RE: Dutch Iris Source question

>
>WOW!  Didn't know there were 22 named varieties available anywhere.  We do
>find them here, but most often in a mixed lot, sans names.  I did find 6
>named varieties at the local Agway a couple years ago,  but we had one of
>those nasty winters with temp. ups and downs, lots of rain instead of snow
>like we're supposed to have--and nearly all rotted or froze/rotted. I have
>found out the hard way that they really need raised beds for better
>drainage, at least in my gardening situation.  
>
>Dorothy Fingerhood
>daf10@cornell.edu
>(Newfield, NY, USA)  where the forsythia is just gorgeous this spring--one
>nice legacy of our latest mild winter.
>
>
Casablanca (pristine white with small yellow signal) and Apollo (White
standards with yellow falls .... style arms are either white or yellow,
can't remember which) are my favourites. 

As a basic list from memory (don't expect me to remember all 23 ... I went
out and counted them.. .actually 23 not 22) I have :
	Casablanca - white
	Apollo - White and yellow
	Angel Wings - white and yellow
	Purple Sensation - dark purple
	Deep river - Dark purple
	Ideal - Blue I think (Can't remember)
	Wedgewood - Blue
	Professor Blauw - Blue
	Rosario - mauve pink
	Saturnus - white with mauve shadings
	Marquette - mauve with bronze shadings
	Bronze Queen - Bronze
	White wedgewood - white
	Yellow Beauty - yellow
	Royal Yellow - yellow
	Orange Beauty - orangy yellow
	Blue Star - Blue I presume (Can't remember)
	White Cloud - white
	Paris - blue I think
	Carmen - ?
	Hildegarde - white or blue
	Oriental Beauty - ?
	Yellow Ecstacy - Yellow

	I cheated and went out and listed them in their pots and in the garden.
Many look identical to others and the blues vary between varieties but I
don't know how to describe them differently so I just describe them as
blue.  As you can see a couple of them I can't even remember what colour
they are.
	

	I have also had and lost :
	Telstar - a blue of some sort
	Golden Harvest - Golden yellow
	Blue Diamond - Blue
	Blue Magic - Blue (of some type)
	(These I intend to replace at some time in the future.


	I also know of :
	Lilac Beauty - mauve (I want to get this)
	Blue Magin - Blue
	Mystic Beauty - bronze and purple (I want to get this)

	and there's a few others I can't think of right now.  I think thats a
pretty reasonable example of what we have here.

	Cool eh?

					Paul Tyerman
					(Australia)
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