HIST-HELEN COLLINGWOOD (and some chat)

Linda Mann said:

<< At the end of the bloom season, I found someone local who dug up a chunk
of
 HELEN COLLINGWOOD for me, bare root...[etc.]...I planted it in the shade
(where
 HELEN is said to bloom) and the fool thing is growing like a weed and I have
 harvested 6 gigantic, mature, healthy looking seeds from the pod that formed
 on that bloom stalk. This is one tough iris.  >>

It surely seems to be so, and it is VERY beautiful! A gorgeous two-toned
blue-violet (a "neglecta") and really compelling in the landscape! Along with
JUNGLE SHADOWS it is currently Henry's preferred bearded iris. On our ride to
the mountains yesterday we joked that out of every clump of country roadside
irises we saw--and we saw quite a few new ones to investigate next
Spring--five of the irises would be pallidas, two would be HELEN COLLINGWOOD,
and the rest would be this and that. We had a nice ride. The day was cool
after a week of severe heat, and the trumpet vines, orange butterfly weed,
mimosa, chicory, Queen Anne's Lace and black-eyed susans were looking very
fine, as were all the new calves. We bought a old book on bees, and four
kinds of olives.

Hope your holidays were just as nice.

Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
Henry Hall   henryanner@aol.com
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