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Per an email from Mike Sutton, in response to my query as to (unexpected) white on the falls:

"Yes, it is 'Doubleday'...fall rebloom can vary a little from spring bloom. 'Doubleday' actually had white showing in the falls when we grew it in CA, especially on rebloom flowers."

(Re)blooming in early December 2022 in Saratoga CA (zone 9), with noticeable white on the falls.

May rebloom. NORDICA is listed on the Reblooming Iris Society pages https://www.rebloomingiris.com... and I have seen it rebloom once in Zone 9. Rebloom seems to be infrequent if not downright rare, but it CAN happen.

Sporadic rebloom in Zone 9, SF Bay Area.

I first got this iris as a bareroot plant in November of 2017. I potted it up into a 1 gallon pot and kept it moist into spring of 2018.

In spring of 2018 (amazed that it was still alive, in part because it was getting too warm and sunny on the patio where it had been growing), I put the potted iris underneath a deciduous oak (where I already had a couple of in-ground PCIs growing). It stayed in that pot all summer and fall, with only whatever stray irrigation it might have gotten from the 2x/week sprinklers, plus a rare hit of water from a watering can. (It got some late afternoon sun in that location.)

I went out there today to look at that area (my garden helper had dug a hole there that he wasn't supposed to), and was stunned to find the plant in bloom. A PCI blooming in December?!! And it's still in its one gallon pot (which supposedly is a no-no - no PCIs in pots more than a year).

Color-wise (not to mention a nearby I. confusa), that spot is not an ideal location for this iris. But otherwise yes (another rule broken - no afternoon sun).

What an iris - it is certainly a keeper (if it survives my putting it into the ground somewhere).

I just divided my clump of 'Ida Red'. The PBF is not at all strong, barely a hint way down at the base. This, in early September in northern CA (zone 9).

This daylily has excellent substance and opens well despite our cooler/cold nights. It passes on good substance and bloom opening to its seedlings, and also the wide rolling ruffles.

That said, it generally looks like a cream here, with maybe the barest hint of pink.

I have a couple of seedlings from it ('Hip to be Square' x 'Linda's Magic') which start out with definite pink in the morning shade, but the pink fades. I have to wonder if they and 'Linda's Magic' are photosensitive, hence the "Magic".

This season (2018) I noticed that the amount of PBF on 'Pinkity' is variable, from rhizome to rhizome. Some rhizomes have almost no PBF, just a little bit down near the brown base. The PBF is much more noticeable on other rhizomes.

My blooms show no sign of pink, and I see no sign of orange in the beard, but they do have a bit of greyed lavender striping just below the beard. I contacted Winterberry and they confirmed that I had the right plant (and said that the pink was a "sometimes" thing that may be dependent on soil and temperature).

I recently discovered this unregistered PCI iris, being sold by Sequim Rare Plants. http://sequimrareplants.com/Ir... After I ordered it, I did another search and discovered a different nursery *also* selling a PCI with the name "Silver Moon", but their image and description differs from that of the first nursery. http://www.yerbabuenanursery.c... A third nursery also carries a PCI "Silver Moon"; their image and description appears to match that of the second nursery. http://www.goldrushnursery.com...

So it looks like there are (at least) two different PCIs in commerce going under the (unregistered with the AIS) name of "Silver Moon".

Per the hybridizer, this iris will rebloom in warm climates (at least zone 7). It has rebloomed here in my zone 9 garden.

Pod fertile.

Carries recessive genes for albinism. When crossed with another diploid also carrying recessive genes for albinism, about 1/4 of the seedlings are albino.

This daylily has wiry dark stems; the small trumpet-like yellow flowers have a fulvous stripe on the reverse side. I find it to be a very attractive plant, in a wild sort of way.

This daylily is pod fertile (pollen not tested) but it has recessive genes for albinism. (When crossed with another diploid with recessive genes for albinism, it throws about 25% albino seedlings.)

See this thread: The thread "For those of you who have 'Pinkity'" in Irises forum

The bottom line is that even though the AIS description and the hybridizer description do not mention PBF, per the hybridizer's daughter (Sheri Arevalo), 'Pinkity' "sure does have PBF". Per her father, the hybridizer, 'Pinkity' has a 1-1 1/4" "lavender" base (which he did not consider dark enough to be "purple").

I have submitted a plant detail edit to indicate that the plant has PBF, because it looks purple enough to me. (I have it planted next to 'Bloodline', which does not have PBF. 'Pinkity' clearly looks to have a purple base, in comparison.)

I have re-ordered 'Pinkity' (I originally bought it from the hybridizer's nursery, Blue J Iris) and will compare the basal foliage on the new rhizomes to those that I already have.

I've had this plant growing in a pot in shade (with maybe an hour or less of direct sunlight during the summer months) for about a year now. Despite being in a pot which is fairly dry, and having to contend with a great deal of shade, this plant is now sending up rebloom scapes. Bud count on the initial scapes was low (< 10), as registered.

The blooms are quite petite and such a clear pale pink that they look "near white".

The scapes are slender and willowy - I don't know if maybe that is typical of this cultivar or if it is due to the shade. (They are leaning towards the light, poor things.)

I have not yet been able to set pods on it (though I managed to set pods on 'Clarity of Purpose', which is also in the same shaded-pot situation).

So far, I have to say that I am impressed that this plant is able to bloom at all, let alone rebloom, given how much and how heavy shade it is in. (On the other hand, it has not propagated much, having gone from one fan to two... I blame that on the shade, and forgetting to keep up the fertilizer on it.)

I've grown this heuchera for many years, in different spots in my (Zone 9b, south SF Bay Area) garden. I have two observations about it:

1. This heuchera is very sensitive to sun and really needs to be in a full shade situation, or else filtered shade with very little sunlight. If it is not protected, as soon as the weather gets warm enough, it will fry.

2. I love heuchera and have tried growing many cultivars, but my garden is infested with rabbits and they seem to like most heuchera (and also the two tiarella that I have tried growing). The rabbits have had ample opportunity to devour this cultivar, but it seems that they don't like the taste very much. Young plants might get sampled (but never stripped), and the rabbits totally ignore the bigger plants. (When I refer to rabbits eating the heuchera, that means the entire plant, foliage and flowers both. Don't believe what you read about rabbits eating the flowers only - not true! Here they will happily eat most heucheras down to the hard core/stem - but not this one.)

The AHS registration data has it that this is a spider double, because the cultivar was registered prior to the creation of the polymerous class. The AHS data has apparently never been updated. http://www.daylilies.org/Dayli...

I used to grow this cultivar years ago (not any longer). It typically produced 85% of its blooms as 4x4 polys for me. The blooms were also typically something of an asymmetric mess. This can be somewhat corrected through hybridizing, but it can take two or more generations to do so.

I still have a seedling http://garden.org/pics/2016-04... that is a second-generation descendant of 'Four Star'. The blooms are mostly symmetrical, but sometimes they are, a little bit, not.

Plant introduced in 2012, on Benz' website: http://www.benzgardens.com/201... and http://www.benzgardens.com/che... .

Per the hybridizer: Blooms are very fragrant, plant has arching blue-green foliage and instant rebloom. He did not cite a bloom size, but I would expect it to be 5.5-6", based on its parentage.

Supposedly drought tolerant once established.

Foliage is grey-green; combined with the white flowers, it makes for an attractive plant.

Tender perennial to 32 degrees F. USDA Zones 10 and 11. (Overwintered here in zone 9b for its first year, without frost protection.)

P.P.A.F.

The foliage is relatively narrow (for a tetraploid) and is dark green.

The bloom color on this cultivar is variable. Some days it looks more blue-ish, other days more of a lavender or orchid. I think it may be weather related, but I have not yet figured out which temperatures (cooler or warmer nights) produce which colors.

'Angelus Blue Skies' consistently produces 4 x 4 polymerous blooms here (SF Bay Area) at a low %, maybe 20% at best. In the few crosses that I have made with it, versus non-polymerous daylilies, it did not seem to have passed on that trait.

The blooms tend to be slightly chalice shaped here - in other words, not opening flat or slightly recurved. After cool nights they are very slow to open and may not open "fully" (as full as they ever do).