Re: TB: Unidentified Historics

From: "S&C Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>

On an outting into the country today, saw many large clumps and rows of an
old very pale, clear yellow TB...slender stalks, shorter, smaller flowers.
Some lined the roadways...also a small TB colored like the MTB Frosted
Velvet, very flashy and sometimes in mixed plantings with the pale yellow
variety.

Anner, we rode the horses back up to the old cemetary in the Little Indian
Creek Conservation Horse Trails.  The horse that I was test riding didn't
pull any fancy tricks, so I was able to observe more this time.  I didn't
see any iris, but the sign over the cemetary said "Baker Cemetary--1852.  It
was enclosed and very secluded set high on a hill in a big field backing up
to deep, mostly oak, woods.  The grave markers were mostly grey stone, some
tall and pointed, others small and very crude.  30-50 graves, I would say.
Way in the back I saw huge clumps of pure white, very large double peonies!
Quite beautiful.  I long to dismount and search for iris; maybe Atroviolacea
is there, too, but hiding in the weeds.  I see no evidence of a road,
homestead, barn, church or any buildings, just the lonely cemetary.  Any
ideas of other varieties of iris to scout for?  Will have another, more
thorough look through this fall, when the weeds are frosted back and fall
colors are blazing...then it will look really lonely.

Cindy Rust, Missouri, Zone 5b


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