The ugly side of Acoma


Three beards!

Triplets!

I'm loving these!

I have more, but can't seem to find the pictures, not sure I might have deleted them.

I have more, too but I can't find them either. I. germanica had some last year that the falls looks like lobsters claws as did the NOID purple.

Here's I. pallida with one standard.

I need to find my Elvis Dreamer oddities. And I have a couple more too that I will find when I get home.

I think I deleted some of mine too. I'm sure there will be more this year.

I hope to have less frost damage this year. The first bloom on one was all convoluted. I finally broke it off, then it began to send up normal buds and blooms.

Elvis Dreamer - 1 1/2 standard, 1 1/2 fall and are really well defined beard!

and one half fall/half standard

All the energy went to the beard, huh?

Elvis had a rough start last year. Frost damage, then a hail storm. The later blooms were finally "normal", or as much so as this one can be. There is a lot of beard to this iris.

Looks like there was a lot of cold damage around.

It was because there was a late freeze period after a warm winter in our area. Then the hailstorm came just in time to shred a lot of the first TB's and my hostas.

Quite Friendship is putting up the weird multiple stalks again.

I just went outside and took this photo.

Quiet Friendship


Again this iris makes me go...

It's making me do the same thing. What the...?

It's not a bloom, but the growth on this iris is making me go... .

Serena Louisa

Rob they didn't happen to have a round up over spray hit them?

I don't use any sprays or poisons in my garden. I weed with my hands only. The only thing I spray is soapy water. I noticed a couple of other irises growing that way too. Could it be from cold nights and warm days?

As for Quiet Friendship, I have no idea why it does that. It did it last year too.

Last year

This year