Re: TB: ideal (my favorite anyway) flower form

From: "Colleen Modra" <irises@senet.com.au>

I like Leda's Lover

I don't partic like very open/upright stds which Barry Blyth often releases.
I partic like nice ruffled, domed stds, like Momentum - I dying to see
Momentous Occasion for real

Colleen Moddra
South Oz

-----Original Message-----
From: michelle verville <mickyjonny@yahoo.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2000 3:12
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: ideal (my favorite anyway) flower form


>From: michelle verville <mickyjonny@yahoo.com>
>
>Hi Linda,
>  I agree with you.  Lidas Lover is a prime example of
>that short, fat apearance.  It does have a pretty
>color but I find it very ugly.  The woman I garden for
>shares our tastes too.  Actually she is the reason
>that I have that taste.  I learned everything I know
>about irises from her so I am definately influinced by
>her.  Well must be going.  Michelle Verville
>
>--- linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net> wrote:
>> From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
>>
>> A while back we got in a discussion of what we like
>> for form of TBs.
>> And I discovered after hunting thru catalogs for a
>> picture of what I
>> consider "perfect" that there was no such thing.
>>
>> I've sort of changed my mind and think the photo of
>> AFTERNOON DELIGHT in
>> this year's Schreiner catalog comes as close as any
>> (easier to judge in
>> a photo than real life, where they are all nearly
>> perfect <g>).  One of
>> the things I've noticed from looking at these photos
>> is that I don't
>> like the ones that have standards that bulge out
>> beyond the widest part
>> of the falls (makes them look squashed to my eye),
>> nor do I like flowers
>> that appear wider than tall.  This latter
>> distinction seems to be a very
>> narrow tolerance - if they are more than a hair
>> taller than wide, they
>> look old and strappy (like the photo of FORT APACHE
>> on the opposite page
>> in the same catalog), but if they are perfectly
>> round (or worse yet,
>> shorter than wide), they look squatty and squnched
>> (like the photo of
>> EDITH WOLFORD, p58).  I notice a lot of the
>> Schreiner photos are taken
>> from an angle slightly above horizontal on the newer
>> ones so they look
>> 'longer' than a side view would show.  Maybe that's
>> to show the view
>> most of us would actually see when looking at the
>> flower in the garden?
>> Surely not to make the flower look like it is closer
>> to the form I like
>> rather than its true squatty self?
>>
>> Just curious as to what other iris growers like.
>>
>> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
>> taking a gorgeous April-like day off to play.
>> Another 2 1/2 inches of
>> rain making everything lush - peas are up, redbud
>> about to pop.
>>
>>
>>
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