I do love Starship but she is apparently not happy where I docked her.

My Starship is also very tiny and did not bloom the first year. We shall see what this spring brings but not hopeful.

The flower is so spectacular, I suppose they though it must be introduced.

It truely is fantastic in bloom. If it had never bloomed, and I hadn't seen how lovely it was, I would probably not feel so bad about chucking it.

Mine in it's glory:

I see that is is in the background of some newer irises as well, like Ring Tone, and Watercolor Print and many others.

For a vigorous classic, try 'Jesse's song' lovely plicata. It is one which grows all over the country--difficult to do.

I got Jesse's Song last fall from Greg. It didn't bloom this spring but it is growing well and should bloom next spring.
Tom - there are many iris that have Starship as a parent, and a lot of the children do much better in the reliable bloom department. So I guess the only challenge is getting it to bloom so you can make crosses with it!

Just planted jesses song the other day. Anxious for next spring!

Lynn - I need to treemail you. Have a little clumpette of QL for you.

My starship was beautiful when she bloomed, Just need to get her somewhere she is happier!
This is 2 different years.

Beautiful shots! So happy it is blooming for some.

I've been looking for alternates to 'Starship Enterprise'... This past Spring I had 'Rainbow High' bloom.. quite fond of this one.


I've added Starship's sibling 'Lightshine'


And I have a few children of Starship: 'Beam Me Up Scotty', 'Glorious Sky', 'Mercury Rising'


& 'Radiant Caterpillar'


Can you tell I really like this color combination?

I luuuv Beam Me Up Scotty. Radiant Caterpillar would certainly catch your eye. I wouldn't want to cause an accident. Years ago a man made a sudden stop when passing my corner lot. I think it was a clump of High Life that caught his attention. If another car had been right behind him there would have been a messy situation. That may have been the year I won Queen of the Show with High Life and runner-up with Stepping Out. I wish I could afford to have my slides digitized. I have a lot from the 1970s-1980s. I went to Melba Hamblen's every year and I notice there are a lot of hers missing pictures. I can't remember if I took pictures of many of her own, but must have done some of them.

I too love Beam Me Up Scotty but it was oversold in 2014 so they weren't offering it this year to build up stock. I am keeping an eye on that one!

Try & have a few select slides put on a disc. then you can post them. I have to get a few out ours done.

Henhouse said:I've been looking for alternates to 'Starship Enterprise'... This past Spring I had 'Rainbow High' bloom.. quite fond of this one.


I've added Starship's sibling 'Lightshine'

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Lightshine')
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And I have a few children of Starship: 'Beam Me Up Scotty', 'Glorious Sky', 'Mercury Rising'

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Beam Me Up Scotty')
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• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Glorious Sky')
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Those are gorgeois, Sherry!
& 'Radiant Caterpillar'

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Radiant Caterpillar')
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Can you tell I really like this color combination?

Charlotte, I understand about the slides.. My parents had 3-4000 that I sort of went through. Fortunately my mother was organized and wrote on the box what each slide was.. I had prints made up for me and my sister and made a photo album for each of us. I was a little shocked at how quickly it added up. I thought putting them on a disc might be cheaper when I was transferring some others, but if it was, it wasn't much..

I was noticing the other day when I was researching some iris that photos of Melva Hamblen's introductions were under-represented.. I'm wondering if your local Society would be interested in helping to get some of those transferred, especially those that have no photo record online?

One can buy a refurbished 32 bit machine for $360 delivered. It will only work on an older computer, but it would do the job.