Re: TB--Titan's Glory? (fragrance, ID.)

Heather Bruhn writes (1 June 97):

> I have what I think is Titan's Glory.  The reason I think this is that I
did
> get some labeled plants last year but (horrors!) never got around to
> labeling them and Titan's Glory was in the selection.  My iris is a large
> (LARGE!) ruffled blue with blue beards (it's sort of a bachelor's button
> blue).  It smells like honeysuckle.  Compared with the older varieties
> planted around it, the stems are HUGE.  It is NOT purple-based.

Hi Heather!
    What you have described is not TITAN'S GLORY. TG is a dark violet (in
the 1989 Checklist the color is described as "Bishop's purple"), and it
does have purple based foliage. There are so many possibilities for what
you have described that I would not dare hazard a guess as to what it may
be.

> 
> Another neat iris is blooming next door.  My neighbor got it from the
same
> guy who gave me Titan's Glory.  Her iris is antique gold on the
standards,
> and a velvety burgundy on the falls.  It smells like orange sherbet or
> orange soda.  It has huge stems and very tall foliage and the buds look
like
> a deep, rich black before they bloom.  I think it has purple-based
foliage
> but I'll need to check.

This sounds like it might be SUPREME SULTAN, but not if it has purple based
foliage.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@cache.net
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