CULT:TB's & Arilbreds

    I wanted to start with "all's right with the world, the Iris are
blooming," but all isn't right with or in the world. Having acknowledged that,
may I, for this posting, pretend that when the iris bloom, when spring visits
us, when the birds flirt and nest, things are OK some where. I can't, rather,
won't allow the war to cast a shadow on this Iris bloom season.
    AH SOO TB SA, didn't bloom last year but increased like a weed, was dug,
divided and is blooming like an Iris possessed! She's a tall, bright yellow
SA. Some blooms have spoons, some horns and some flounces! Talk about each
blossom being a surprise package.
    For the first time I have photographed an Iris and been most unhappy with
the colors as my camera saw them. A lovely Arilbred, TARNISHED COIN . . . her
colors are so complex that I don't even have the vocabulary to describe them.
. .my camera certainly did not do her justice. I fiddled with the colors but
was unable to show her true beauty. In this case, a picture is NOT worth a
thousand words. Can one of you verbally endowed Aril people describe her to
me?
    So many Iris are coming on! Kasperek's AFRICAN WINE, MDB, opened in a
cluster yesterday. I love those little babies! GRAPELETTE is growing and
increasing like a weed. A delightful little splash of intense color.
    One of the awarenesses (sp) that is washing over me this season is that
some of the iris I thought rather homely last spring are being viewed (this
spring) as quite lovely. Case in point: POGO DOLL. I found her rather drab
last year and this spring, I fell in love with her and wondered what in the
world I was seeing last year to not see that beauty! Another one, a rescue
from a thrift shop, an older girl, purple, narrow falls and standards. . .last
year she was relegated to a corner. This year she has bloomed and bloomed and
bloomed. . .a mass of purple blossoms that grab your eye when viewed.
    As I type this, TARNISHED COIN and PALLU are in a vase where I have
photographed them. I have arrived at the conclusion that there is truly NO way
to adequately "paint a verbal picture" of some of these Arils. . .they are
beyond words and when the camera doesn't see their beauty, all that's left is
to grow them yourself! Only then can you see their loveliness!

Doris Elevier
USDA zone 7b Sunset 11
El Paso, TX

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