Thornbird? I would love some!

I need to move Thornbird and see if it looks better with other colors (than I have it near now). If it doesn't look good in the new spot I have picked out, it's going away for good- just not gaudy enough for me ya know, LOL.

It would be pretty next to some wine or purple colored selfs Neal! Thornbird is the new white!

Sometimes Thornbird picks its own spot in the garden...




Here it is snuggling up to Magic Hope. I wouldn't have planted the two colors next to each other, but they didn't look too bad!

Ah, great minds! Yes, that is indeed the color scheme of the area I'm moving Thornbird to, wine, cream, beige, reddish plum, and some burgundy foliage plants. Now it is among blues, purples, and lavenders, and looks kinda dirty among the clear, saturated colors.

Pam -- I love Magic Hope! Never saw that one before -- gotta go find out more about it!

Well -- I'm not likely to ever get that one -- it's a 1983 cultivar............

Mary Ann,

There are of course plenty of people who grow cultivars from 1983. Maybe you just need to come over and join us in HIPS.

Sorry; couldn't resist the plug.

Brett

Or just hang out with some gardeners who are older than dirt......

Mary Ann I can probably spare ya piece of that one in the spring! (I have a lot of old plicatas)

Thank you Brett -- I never thought about that as a solution -- probably because it's hard to wrap my mind around something from the l980's as historic. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to that. I was born in the 40's -- now THAT'S historic!!!

I might have to meander over to that group. Is there a web address?

http://www.historiciris.org/
also on FB https://www.facebook.com/HISTO...

Hey kid (Mary Ann) some of us are in the decade before you. that's why I don't do computers well. find some irises born the same year as you were. Seems like a pal.

Snork said: Mary Ann I can probably spare ya piece of that one in the spring! (I have a lot of old plicatas)

Pam -- I wrote out a reply to you last night, thanking you for your kind offer. It never showed up here -- I must have forgotten to click on the *finished* button.

So again -- thank you, I accept your kind offer -- and hope that there's something I have that you'd like to have in return!!

That's funny Lucy -- I haven't been called *kid* in a very long time!!! My Hub is a 30's kind of guy -- so my lifestyle is real similar to yours. We're privileged to be *enjoying* these years -- many people don't live long enough to do so. But I do resent the limitations that it presents. We need an icon that throws up its arms in frustration!!!

Thank you Sue -- I'm on Facebook, so I'll check it out there! Brett are you on the Facebook group?

Snork said:

Those look so great next to each other!

Mary Ann - I am sure we can work something out!

Pam --

Rob -- I totally agree -- that combination is beautiful!!

I think so too!