Decadence is a good parent.

Tom that's the main reason I got three of it! Now I need to find more broken color plants.

One I like a lot is Oasis Patches. It's a good grower and has good branching as well as nice color.

irisfirefighter said:Here are 2 more sibs in the 40-12 cross

I love the pale subtle broken pattern on this one. Very different than most brokens that have really vibrant colors.

I would love to see a ruffly bubbly broken!!!

The Charm/Smoke (Charmed Smoke anyone?) cross has beautiful coloring.

Great seedlings Cory!

I'm loving the English Charm X Dakota Smoke seedling too. How about "Smoke Charmer"?

Smoke Charmer is what I thought of, too! Such a pretty one.

Yes, Smoke Charmer is better.

Here are some more seedlings.

64-12 sibs. English Charm X Dakota Smoke


I like the lighter band on the falls of both these seedlings.

28-12 sibs Rustler X Gnus Flash


It's broken, but it has the bad form of a broken. Will keep and try to work on the form.


Not sure what to think of this one. It's different! I'll keep it around and see what happens.

Things are going pretty good so far. I'm getting seedlings to bloom!! I have a few more that I know will been broken to open very soon. I'm up to 7 broken this year and keeping them all to work with.
Have many more seedling to open. Can't wait. Also have a pile building up of rejects. Got to thin things out.

#3 is interesting as is #4. Nice color in the broken color one. Eye catching. #4 is my favorite.

#s 1 and 2 are bright, pretty and I like the light banding, too!

#1, & #2, are my picks from that bunch .

Number 1 is my choice, hands down. Like the color and the form. It should be named Dakota Charm.

some more seedlings

37-12 Tiger Honey X Gnus Flash


28-12 Rustler X Gnus Flash


62-12 Mysterious Ways X Dakota Smoke


More 40-12 Sibs

I'm very happy with this one!!

Thank you for looking

The Mysterious Ways/D. Smoke is really interesting in it's color mix. Do you have any other shots of it?

I know you are going to work on the form of Rustler X Gnus Flash, but the red color is really nice. Gnus Flash has such open standards. Have you tried crosses with Kasperek's that have a more closed standard, such as Bewilderbeast?

I'm really liking those pale broken colors.

I love the Mysterious Ways/Dakota Smoke cross!! (surprise, huh Leslie?) You could call it Dakota Ways. You could have a whole line of *Dakota* Irises!!

Here are 2 more pics of 62-12




Leslie, I will try making crosses next year with these seedlings. For me the first bloom is just to see what I get. What ones to save, what to throw out. Bloom #2 I will start to cross. Sounds backwards from what others do, but I don't have a lot of room. I only have 6 named Broken colors irises, I don't have Bewilderbeast. I need to get some more that have better form.

Oh, golly, I like the color on this one!!!!!!

irisfirefighter said:

28-12 sibs Rustler X Gnus Flash



It's broken, but it has the bad form of a broken. Will keep and try to work on the form.

Debra, I'm with you! I'm in sort of love with that one.

on 28-12, nice color, and I don't remember anything else like it!
I really like a bunch of the other ones too!

I love 62-12!!! Thanks for more pics!!!

28-12 has outstanding color.