Bay View Gardens - leaf spot

Good afternoon folks - I guess you haven't seen Tom Burseen's $100+ iris this 
year.  I have only bought one introduction iris in my life and that in part 
because I ain't getting any younger and it had a trait I couldn't wait to 
acquire. If I were a commercial hybridizer and Ghio's plant had traits that I 
considered desireable I would probably buy it.  In this part of the country almost 
any California introduction is taking a chance.  There are so many Hamblen and 
Hamner and Weiler and Gartman and Brown cultivars available at very modest 
prices and I don't think a lot of the "new" iris are really an improvement.  I 
mainly want iris that are hardy, multiple at a moderate rate and bloom most 
years.  The rarest and prettiest iris in the world isn't worth anything if it 
doesn't thrive and bloom.  The nature of the iris doesn't lend itself, in my 
opinion, to color breaking and horns and spoons.  It is rather like putting a 
clown suit on a beautiful woman.  I want my iris stately and regal.  
Yes, Don, I am having a lot of leaf spot show up at my place too.  Wonder 
what is going on?
Barbara Null
Tyler, TX  zone 7b/8a

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