Re: HYB:Iris names

>There are some seriously fun naming ideas in your email, Neil!
>
>FUN DILLY
>CASUAL VISITOR
>DARNED ORIGINAL
>BETCHA A NICKEL
>
You missed a few, Catherine.  How about:

MORE THAN ONCE (a rebloomer, of course)
FURLED BROW (an exceptionally odd BC or SA, perhaps)
SOMETHING TO BEHOLD (anything truly captivating)
DELIGHTFULLY MAINLINE (the perfect self)
and last but not least ...
I'M JUST WAITING (a neverbloomer)

>Neil A Mogensen wrote:
>
>>Right up there near the top of the Burseen/Kasperak competition would have to
>>be Sterling Innerst.  His use of an adjective-noun combination is a dilly and
>>a fun dilly at that.  "Ominous Stranger"---hmmmm.  I've met a few.  
"Anxiously
>>Forward"---yup.  Been there, done that.  More than once too.
>>
>>But with "Innirishow," I've never been real sure just how that was to be
>>pronounced.  It's clever, and darned original, but oh my...the furled brow of
>>the casual garden visitor over that label.....that has got to be something to
>>behold.
>>
>>Then at the same time he has delightfully mainline names like "Foreign
>>Statesman" and "Concise."
>>
>>I'm just waiting for someone to come out with "Homeland Security."  Betcha a
>>nickel it hasn't been used.....yet.



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