HYB: Another fantasy iris

OK, Robin, here's another to toss around.

In '56 I bloomed a yellow/brown bicolor that was velvety in the falls.  It was
from Bryce Canyon X Spun Gold, the only velvety yellow I've ever run across.
It didn't have very good form--even for those days, but that combo of a brown
variegata, smoothly colored with plush velvet gave me an idea that has rattled
around in the back of my mind ever since.

How about an amoena--white standards, velvety (wide, ruffly) brown falls,
plush RED beard like some of the Blyth and Keppel things have--and of course,
perfect branching, wonderful health and wide climate tolerance.  Where would
we start?

I know that some of Barry Blyth's things come close to this, without velvet.
I told him about my "dream" iris, and he said he had a number of crosses out
in the field that it *could* pop from, but as far as I know, it never has.

Even better yet, how about a rim around the falls of yellow or cream?

There are several of Blyth's amoenas that look like places one might
start--like COFFEE MALT, or COFFEE WHISPERS.  Keppel tells me that BRAGGADOCIO
has thrown some yellow amoenas, so there is another--or its seedlings--that
could get tossed in the pot.  Blyth's SAFARI SUNSET looks like it might be a
yellow amoena without the anthocyanin inhibited in the standards.

I figure this fantasy flower would need 4-plex "t", I-sub-s to get the
standards non-blue, the yellow amoena genetics to get the yellow out of the
standards too, the genetics that give the velvet texture in the fall, and
whatever it takes to make that beard plush as a fat caterpiller. Several of
the Blyth intros have most of this already in one flower.   Any ideas?

Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC

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