Brown Iris---several older ones are a great brown--Spartan-Schreiner's l973 --bigggggggg
flowers--even has survived for about 10 years in our rotten weather here and still going strong!! Fort Apache Schreiner's 1982--when the sun shines on it it looks like velvet!! and Schreiner's had another brown one--Chief Quinaby(?) cannot find it right now--but twas about 5-6 years ago when it came out--talllllll with big brown flowers---I remember seeing it at the National Meeting and having a bet with Tom (Abrego) that I couldn't spot it from the bus in each garden--and sure 'nuff I could--there it was, head and shoulders above all the others--
Junggle Shadows and Gingerbread Man were some of the first medians-named-that I had--my husband thought JG was yucky!!! as I had three, all the same gray/blue/brown colors, just in different spot on different flowers--since these were the first medians we had, he thought that all medians were like those--when I finally showed him many others--at Schreiner's and Keith K's--in all colors--he decided that he liked them better than the TB's--so now we have at least 200+ medians (not counting the MTB's) and only about 100 TB's--and I am trying now to find some of the older ones which I had in earlier years--Bayberry Candle will never be gone from my yard--I consider it a classic--and while many lavender, white, blue-white ones end up a funny color here because of the difference in mineral content in the ground, BC is really a pretty chartreuse color here-
Pre-emergent--when Allen Ensminger was here a couple years ago, he told us how he controlled weeds in his garden--Butane torched the ones between Iris rows (shudder at that thought) and pre-emergent applied with a 'lawn-seeder' going up and down each row, so that the row got a double dose--one from each way-- I have never really tried his method--but have used Surflan once a year, to control being over-run with Pansies and Snapdragons--which are worse than 'weeds' at times--
Thanks John for setting up the Iris-photo list--twill get onto that one too.
Carryl in western Montana Zone 3/4 where it is cloudy and cold for 2 days now, but no snow or rain yet! (Iris are so much nicer than Dahlias--this said after spending two days cutting Dahlias tubers to pack away for the winter, and not even half-way done) I keep thinking--Iris are great!! They like the cold weather!!
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