Re: TB:Favorites

Here is my list of the best irises in my garden.   Each is superior in beauty, vigor and substance.

Mountain Violet   This one has been my favorite for almost fifteen years.  White standards are tinted pink at the     midribs.  Ruffled falls are rosy lavender with blue lavender edge.  A light red beard makes the center glow.      March rebloom often merges with regular April bloom giving it a six week bloom period.  It is very disease resistant and multiplies rapidly.  It's delightfully fragrant also.

Skating Party:  Huge, ruffled, pure white blossoms.  It is disease resistant and a good multiplier and a faithful bloomer.

Mary Frances:  Blue lavender self.  Flowers have a unique color, perfect form, and the clump produces plenty of them.  Vigor is average.

Jesse's Song:  Rose Violet on cream dotted plicata.  Form is not always perfect, but this one grows like a weed.

Stairway to Heaven:  Creamy white standards,  wide, ruffled, bright blue-lavender falls.  Several blossoms open at once make spectacular stalks.  Substance is excellent and growth habit is good.

Anna Belle Babson:  Bight coral pink like its parent Beverly Sills.  It multiples well, the easiest to grow pink that I have.

Pond Lily:  A spectacular bright pink bitone, lighter standards, deeper orchid falls.  It produces many stalks and flowers of perfect form yet multiplies well, though its general vigor is average.

Noreen's Delight:  Light blue standards, dark violet falls.  Everything about this iris is big, rhizomes, stalks, blossoms, clumps.  It's a real eye-catcher.  

Mesmerizer:  Big, ruffled, pure white space ager.   The huge ruffled flounces often make it look as though it had double falls.  It has excellent vigor and disease resistance, but the stalks sometimes fall over from the burden of the big flowers.

I have three new ones that I am eagerly waiting to see again.

Penny Lane:  a brilliant yellow orange.  The blossoms are large and beautifully formed.  So far growth habit seems to be very good.

April Jewel:  a glowing pink-orange blend.  Its first stalk had flowers of spectacular beauty that lasted for many days.  It has made a good clump.

Ring Around Rosie:  White blossoms rimmed gold with the falls dotted burgundy.  This is an unusual iris with delicate beauty.  It has made the biggest, healthiest first year clump I have ever seen.

Francelle Edwards   Glendale, AZ   Zone 9   I finally got my seeds out of the refrigerator and into their pots.  And now the temperature has soared into the 80's.  Will the grow or will they damp off?  I'm concerned about them.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Donald Eaves 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:Favorites


  Well done, John!  I thought your time worth every word.  If some time in the
  future someone searches the archives, they will find something more than a
  name on a favorite list; something that tells them why it's there via your
  up close and personal perspective.  Useful for those with inquiring minds.

  >Boy that took some time, but I guess if I wanna recommend them, I oughta
  say
  >why.

  Donald Eaves
  donald@eastland.net
  Texas Zone 7b, USA



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