Omigosh -- this was the best batch yet! The subtle pinks hiding in the standards of #2. The lace on #5. The everything on #6. I understand why you don't/can't develop these for commercial purposes -- but what a terrible loss for the Iris world. These are just wonderful.
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I have always wondered what this one would have looked like if it were born with the voluptuous form and ruffles. I am sure I don't have it anymore but I always thought those styles inside the flower were distinctive and the sparse markings on the standards. Maybe it's just me.
Just try to picture it with form like this violet seedling for example.
The falls in this one were in excess of four inches wide.
Anyway, still working my way thru some file folders here. Got a few more for the iris lovers out there. I have never really focused on any one thing. Just dabbled here and there with plicatas, and reds, and darks, space age, whatever. Sometimes you get things from a cross and say, "where did that come from"? I still have all these sdlgs. except for the bright orange (this pic is straight from the camera, no photoshopping). I waited too late to move it one fall and it didn't have a chance to root down before freeze and I lost it. 'Gratuity' was the pod parent and I am in search of a source for it again to try to reproduce some of the vivid color that it produced. I still have the pollen parent, 'Lacy Primrose'.
I really like that first one in both of these posts. That one with the interesting styles. I don't think the form was that bad, but I'm not a judge. It's very unique, and perhaps you could have tried to keep the color and breed into it some form that you liked. Too bad it's gone. That first one in the second post is really nice. I'd buy that one in a flash. I also like the very last one. I think you should introduce them!
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