{Disarmed} Re: favorite Siberian

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I liked your pic of Eric the Red.  Many years ago, I decided to purchase Eric the Red finding it, I thought, at White Flower Farm in CT.  I thought the iris was actually something like a real red as I had few irises at the time.  Eric was in short supply and I came home by accident with "Sparkling Rose".  I did not like the color and was very disappointed with this variety.  I put it behind the barn with other rejects.  A few years later (they need several years here to make a clump) I could not believe what I saw.  Sparkling Rose was holding it's own with a motley bunch of plants and had made a clump of over 200 bloomstalks.  So I moved it back into the garden.  Pity to call really good performance plants historic.  That would be if historic is in any way thought inferior.  Still performs yearly regardless of weather or rain.   Very dependable.  Some with more attractive blooms have been moved on here because they do not produce many flowers and take a lot of space.

 

Claire Peplowski

Zone 4 NYS mountains

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