Re: Identification of Iris---a variegata
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- Subject: Re: Identification of Iris---a variegata
- From: D* &* J* <l*@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:33:26 -0700 (MST)
CEMahan@aol.com wrote:
>>
> It is very, very difficult, indeed, really impossible to identify an iris by
> a photograph. The best one can do is say "It might be......." or "it looks
> like.....". The iris you have asked about it a modern tall bearded iris of
> the type we call a "variegata." It appears to be growing in quite a bit of
> shade, which would cause the color to be more intense than if grown in full
> sun. This would also affect branching, which appears quite "close", and
> height (irises tend to grow taller in the shade as they "reach" for light.)
>
> The iris might be SMART ALECK (Gatty 88), which performs reasonably well in
> Virginia. It does not appear ruffled enough to be MARY ELLEN NICHOLS
> (Nichols 90). A similar iris, and my current favorite in this color class,
> is TEXAS GLORY (Nichols 94), which seems to differ from the iris in the
> photograph in being better branched and having a slight gold edge on the
> falls. But as I said, the branching can very quite a bit depending on both
> culture and site where grown.
>
> A currently very poplular iris in this color class is SUPREME SULTAN...but I
> personally will not recommend it because it can have a lot of difficulty
> standing up straight and tall in the garden, and often has to be staked. I
> certainly think you would be happy with SMARK ALECK or TEXAS GLORY. And I
> have seen MARY ELLEN NICHOLS doing quite nicely in a couple of mid-Atlantic
> gardens.
Gosh, Clarence, what's a person to do but order all of them? :)
Thanks for all your suggestions...I'm going to have to get a second
job..
Julie Finn in Virginia
