Re: A Blue Iris for Lazy Gardeners

My favorite medium blue iris continues to be SHIPSHAPE, the 1974 Dykes Medal
winner.  Maybe it is really blue-violet, but it looks close enough to blue to
 me.  It can compete with Iris pallida as a grower and survivor in gardens in
the east, and although it increases remarkably, it doesn't need to be dug up
and divided all the time.  Clumps seldom  in a bare center because SHIPSHAPE
seems to send new increases over the rotted old rhizomes and then keep on
blooming like mad year after year.  Very few modern TBs have this marvelous
trait so loved by lazy gardeners such as me.  

And it doesn't fall over or lean like VICTORIA FALLS is prone to do.  It has
just the right amount of ruffling for me---it still looks like an iris!
 Hurray for SHIPSHAPE!  Clarence Mahan in Virginia
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