Clarence seems to jump out at you! I love it.

Our relatives tell us it is 'dry' cold as opposed to our 'wet' cold. Cold is cold as far as I am concerned.

Teenybopper:

Keppel, 2009

Zencat said:Clarence seems to jump out at you! I love it.

And not only that but it is a vigorous grower and bloomer. It wants to give you lots and lots of flowers!!

Want to show one more Iris for the purpose of discussion. I don't know why this Iris is a Plicata and not a Luminata -- who can tell me?
Vapor:

Ghio, 2002

Lestv said:Montmartre , Montmartre w/Owyhee Desert

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Montmartre')
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Meant to comment on this -- these are gorgeous together!! Good job, Leslie!!

Me thinks Moonlit Sea belongs in my historic bed!!

Me thinks I need to add most of these to my garden!

Mary Ann, I see more dots and lines than a wash and the standards are all or mostly white, not edged. That would be my guess.

Me thinks I need.

You could be right Celia. But the lines and dots become a wash at the edge of the falls, and there is a rim color on the falls. But it might be the white standards that make the difference...........

That's my thinking, too but what do we know. Lol

Well -- we know a little bit more than we did five days ago.............

Hey, yeah!

Not as many Luminatas it seems.

No -- but we haven't heard from a couple of people yet............Marilyn, Sue, Brad............

Muddymitts said:

And not only that but it is a vigorous grower and bloomer. It wants to give you lots and lots of flowers!!

I can vouch for that as Mary Ann gave me many rhizomes that will have many flowers this spring both in my garden, and my friend's yellow-white-purple garden.!

I think we are all learning a lot more about the flowers we love. And it will be a good source to go back to as well. We will have groups by color, and also by type. Until I started searching through my lists for variegatas, plicatas, luminatas, I never thought about what made a neglecta a neglecta versus an amoena, what the Emma Cook Pattern was all about, or why I need to post my bitones separate from my bicolors. Some of these we have yet to cover, and also brokens and space-agers. Even if I have less of one type than another I like seeing the posts of those types. I don't think there are as many luminatas out there, so it doesn't surprise me that less is being posted. It is still giving me plenty to drool over!

I forgot one earlier - Delirium

Well said, Leslie. A great way to think of it.