'Light Up My Life' (new intro last year - bonus from my club's '08 Blue J order)

'Lava Moonscape' (fell for it during the '05 national convention)

'Prairie Bison' (ordered from the description alone last year - doesn't look especially "chocloate brown" to me)

'Disco Eclipse' (another I fell for at the '05 convention)

'Rainbow Candy' (bonus from Snowpeak and my mom's favorite)

'Calico Vista' (especially short again this year)

'About Last Night'

'Gypsy Geena'

'Starring' (gorgeous bloom, miserable stalks and plant)

'Heart Of Africa'

'Thornbird' (did I really need to label the photo?)

'Rayos Adentro' (quite possibly the most beautiful MTB I've seen - and I'm not just saying that because Carol (the originator) helped judge our show Saturday :) )

'Blue Fin'

'All Aflutter'

'Holy Kosmoly' (missing a standard in this shot, but only had 3 blooms to try and photograph this year)

'Suspicion'

'Champagne Frost' (another bonus - great form, lousy bud count/short stalk, but first time to bloom)

'Intrepide' (wild, intense colors)

'Midnight Revelry' (bonus from Schreiner's - usually has better form)

'Sargent Preston' (yet another I fell for at the national)

'Llama Mama' (nicely branched, tall stalks (even on a first year plant)

A seedling (out of 'Divine') from a friend.

'Naples' (fell for it at a show last year)

'White Room' (much nicer than when I saw it in St. Louis)

A seedling from Chuck Bunnell. He was going to compost it and it looked like this when I first saw it. Had it looked like it does this year, I don't know that I would have pleaded to save a piece.

'Epic Poem' (some of you might be familiar with the current photo+joke craze of "epic fail"... I wanted to use that to describe this, but that's not really fair. It's a first year water-loving plant (that was never watered in))

Let me know if this is too many thumbs for a reasonable load time.

Gotta love those BlueJ bonuses!

I am drooling over a couple of unnamed at your photobucket account. I really appreciate seeing the truer colors you capture. One of these days a digital will appear that even gets all the difficult lav-purple-blue ones.

iris_gal, are there any NOIDs in particular? There are a few I have hunches on, but not many. I don't want to get your hopes up, but I'll be moving the rest of the old garden this year and I *might* have enough of some to share.

Two of my NOIDs are out at the property and the grower that sent the mislabels went/was forced out of business last year. So, guess who's the proud owner of worthless junk they paid for.

This was supposed to be 'Obi-Wan Kenobi':

and this was supposed to be 'Huckleberry Fudge':

Makes me wonder what I'll find when the rest bloom next year and there's nothing I can do about it.

That all sounds so bitter and disappointed, but I really am thrilled with the gardens this year and I'm expecting big boxes of more beautiful iris soon!!

So I'll make a new thread. It was one at the Detroit zoo group.

After I discovered how many noids a grower had sent me it became worse. The local grower had also bought from that same outfit and I bought from her ~~ increasing my noids!!!

Out of desperation I've learned to save lots of pics and carefully examine my iris against them.

So I'll make a new thread. It was one at the Detroit zoo group.

After I discovered how many noids a grower had sent me it became worse. The local grower had also bought from that same outfit and I bought from her ~~ increasing my noids!!!

Out of desperation I've learned to save lots of pics and carefully examine my iris against them.

I'm sorry to say that I don't know the id for the first. It makes me think of 'Bel Esprit', but I don't believe it is.

The second looks just like 'Lady Jane' to me, but it's marker is gone (good ol' public gardens have a way of losing markers). I can say, however, that it was beside a Lauer seedling (I think they're left over from when my club hosted the national years ago and they weren't updated when they were introduced) and LJ is also a Lauer.

The last looks just like my 'Pumpkin Cheesecake', but I didn't get a photo of mine.

I hope that's at least a start.

P.S. I don't know if anyone noticed, but I didn't place my copyright on that "supposed to be 'Obi-Wan Kenobi'" photo. That's one of those "if you really want to use it without my permission, you deserve the photo credit for that gem" photos. LOL

I'll check out Lady Jane --- she'd look good in my garden!

And I'm with you on the first 2 pics. Looked more pastel than Bel Esp. but with those color breaks I thought it could be having an off year.

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iris gal- I love that fourth picture you posted. Wish I knew what it was.

A few posts up I mentioned that I think that one you're referring to looks just like 'Pumpkin Cheesecake'. It was at the zoo and it's marker had been lost.