Re: Additional Favorite Japanese Irises

Dorothy irisnut Willott wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> You are doing a great job, but you are surely beginning to tire of this.
> 
> I just have to add a few more recommended Japanese irises:
> 
> One of my most favorites is IZU-NO-UMI (Hirao - Japan pre 1985)
> It has wide, overlapping, near horizontal 3 falls; light blue with white veins in falls.
> Super flowers, but foliage is not the best.
> 
> Other late bloomers:    RUFFLED DIMITY (Lorena Reid 87)
>                         SUMMER STORM (W. Marx 55)
>                         PURPLE PARASOL (C. McEwen 77)
>                         FRILLED ENCHANTMENT (W. Marx 59)
> 
> Still waiting for the big clump of AZURE PERFECTION (A. Hazzard 64) to open
> its first bloom.
> 
> Another favorite is VIRGINIA B (A. Hazzard R. 72), but I may be prejudiced, because
> I was there in his garden when Art decided to name it for my mother, Virginia B. McClintock,
> because she liked it so much.  It is a sister to PRAIRIE FORALPHA and PRAIRIE
> FORBETA which Hazzard introduced in 1975.  They are all similar, butterfly-like 3-F
> varieties in tones of blue-violet and violet, and very vigorous.
> 
> We'll be leaving Friday for the Region 6 meeting in the Kalamazoo area and hope they still
> have a lot of Japanese irises in bloom.
> 
> Dorothy Willott in the cold north where it hit 94 degrees today!
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