Re: REF: Color Patterns for Dummies

Go for it, Laurie!  I'd welcome such a site.  I too have visited 
every web site I could find, and have a BIG STACK of catalogs, as 
well as a sizeable and growing number of cultivars, going back a long 
way.  And I still probably couldn't answer your questions.  More 
power to you!  I'm fascinated by the discussion threads that appear 
here; but do I understand them..."

Patricia Brooks


-- In iris-talk@egroups.com, lfandjg@y... wrote:
> --- In iris-talk@egroups.com, "Hotmail" <janclarx@h...> wrote:
> 
> >   Are you the same Laurie that gives out plenty of intelligent 
> information on the iris forum?
> 
> Guilty as charged.  But if you read my Iris Forum posts, you no 
doubt 
> realize that all I'm really doing is restating some of the great 
> advice and information I've read here on iris-talk.
> 
> >   At leas you know enough about colour patterns to be as confused
> as 
> the rest of us!
> 
> Gee, that doesn't bode too well for my Iris Patterns for Dummies 
> project.  ;-)
> 
> >   Have you checked out the iris-photos archives? They are at:
> >   www.mallorn.com/lists/iris-photos/
> > 
> >   also go to www.irises.org and check out some of the web pages 
> linked to the AIS site web page. Many of these have lots of photos, 
> with descriptions. They may not describe the pattern types exactly, 
> but just looking at the variety of types will help.
> 
> I've spent countless hours at just about every iris-related website
> on 
> the net, and about all it's done in terms of learning iris patterns
> is 
> leave me more confused.  What I really need is for someone to point
> me 
> at a specific photo and say, "See that band of color around the 
edge 
> of the fall?  That's what's commonly referred to as a halo, and 
it's 
> different than a wire-edge or a ring because ... " or "This one is 
a 
> variegata instead of a yellow-ground plicata because ... " or "That 
> dotting is stippling but this dotting is peppering because ..."
> 
> A pictorial tutorial would make all of this soooo much easier!
> 
> Laurie
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