Re: CHANGE OF PACE and HIGH STANDARDS

In a message dated 97-01-07 12:24:22 EST, you write:

<<  Stockton's 1996 catalog they write, of Change of Pace:
 
 "Makes our list of five that we would want on a 'desert island' -- not 
 that irises would be able to grow on a desert island."  (Well, maybe 
 arils?)
 
 Barb Johnson    ljohnson@cland.net >>

I do appreciate your comment Barb, and also those of others who have praised
CHANGE OF PACE...I sometimes wonder whether I have learned anything at all
about what constitutes a good iris, considering how the official ballots turn
out sometimes.   In the Oct. Bulletin are the Award of Merit winners for
1996---and CHANGE OF PACE ended up as a runner up.  Didn't made it.  Of the
irises that did made it, I have seen all of them in different gardens except
BUSY BEING BLUE (somehow, dispite visiting many gardens every year I never
remember seeing that one even once!)

Of the irises that did make the AM in 1996, very few come close to the
consistent performance of CHANGE OF PACE.  I grow half of them and none
performs as well as CHANGE OF PACE.  

Among the Siberians, I find it amazing....absolutely amazing.....that
CORONATION ANTHEM got 11 more votes for the Morgan-Wood than HIGH STANDARDS.
 I have grown both of these irises since they were introduced and CORONATION
ANTHEM can't even approach HIGH STANDARDS as a garden iris.  HIGH STANDARDS
is fabulous, approaching perfection. Clarence Mahan in VA
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