New Introductions for 2008

New Irises by Terry Aitken and the rest of our “family of hybridizers”.

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- TALL BEARDED -
BATTLESTAR ATLANTIS (Aitken ’08) 42" (107 cm), ML. 3 branches plus terminal with double sockets. A healthy, vigorous grower with large pure white flowers including beards, horns, spoons or flounces, with great substance and strong white color saturation. Overlapping falls with no haft marks makes this plant a worthy introduction with or without the horns. Like many spaceagers, the horns are unstable. One year, you get spoons, the next may be fishing rod-like horns and sometimes flounces, sometimes all on the same flower! Each year is a stellar adventure.
Sdlg #00T79: (Got Milk X (Stellar Lights sibling x unknown (probably Skyhooks))
$50.00
COLOR ME DIFFERENT (S. Markham ’08) TB, 40" (102 cm), EM. This is really an iris of a different color. Standards are white ground infused with light greenish-yellow sanding, heavier at the edges. Falls are white ground with pale greenish-gold sanding extending from slightly darker tan-gold hafts in a diffuse inch-wide band around the edges. The style arms and beards in the heart of the flower are yellow-gold. Strong, well-branched stalks produce beautifully shaped flowers in sequence for a long season of bloom. Born and bred in New England, the vigorous plant is reliably hardy in just about any climate. Fertile both ways, we are using this iris to produce more hardy plicatas.
Sdlg. #97-18A: (Baltic Star X Some Are Angels)
$50.00
COPPER FUSION (Aitken ’08) TB, 35" (89 cm), ML. 3 branches plus terminal for 8 buds. This story begins in the early 1980s when I crossed (Irene Nelson X Gold Galore) in an effort to “stir the color pot”. Many interesting generations followed. This is a vigorous plant with nicely proportioned show stems. Moderate size flowers have rich reddish/copper domed standards. Flaring, lightly ruffled falls are clean white blending to yellow/orange at the rims and punctuated by coral red beards. A bright and lovely confection anyway you cut it. George Shoop would be smiling!
Sdlg. # 01T12C: (Crackling Caldera X Deliciously Different)
$50.00
GENTLEWOMAN (M. Smith ’08) TB, 38" (97 cm), EM. 8 buds. This sibling to Snow Lion is also a glaciata, but taller, with a larger flower than Snow Lion. Color is a clear, smooth shade of peach. Nicely proportioned flowers with lovely deep ruffles. Beards are peach tipped over white. A lovely concoction for your garden.
Sdlg. #00-24 A: (Flights of Fancy X Keppel 92024 D, sib to Answered Prayers)
$50.00
GOING GREEN (A. Mego ’08) TB, 42" (107 cm), ML. Tall robust stems produce 3 branches plus terminal for 8 buds. Selected in Slovakia under challenging growing conditions, hardiness should be the byword. The white domed standards with an olive wash blending up the midribs sit atop olive green flared and ruffled falls. Fall edges are highlighted irregularly in white. Beards are soft yellow.
Sdlg. #AM 00-0547-3: ((Silverado x Moonlight Sketch) X Aura Light )
$50.00
ISLAND PEARL (Aitken ’08) TB, 40" (102 cm), ML. 3 branches and terminal with double sockets for 8 buds. Very tidy foliage fans done in robust deep green that seem to be leaf spot resistant. Good increaser. Sturdy bloom stems with well spaced buds. The main feature is the pearly smooth ocean blue falls which deepen to a red-purple rim, accenting the round falls. The standards are a blend of red-purple similar to the fall rims and lighter at the midribs. Beards are a sharply contrasting white with orange hair tips.
Sdlg. #01T5: (92T8: (Horatio x unknown)) X 99T26: (91T64rim (unknown dark top x Color Fusion) x 91T67rim (Modern Story x Lace Artistry))
$50.00
PINK PRESENCE (L. Markham ’08) TB, 34" (86.5 cm), M. This very shapely and prettily ruffled flower displays itself on elegantly branched stalks with 7-8 buds. Standards are an ultra-clean, star-dusted clear light pink; falls are creamy-pink in the centers, shading to edges of the standard color. Style arms are creamy with frilled pink crests, and beards of a deeper, more intense red-pink complete a very lovely picture. Perfect bud sequence gives an extra long season of bloom. Fertile both ways and producing really gorgeous seedlings in both self-color and plicata.
Sdlg. #9395-30A2: (Peignoir X Freckle Face)
$50.00
POLISHED BRONZE (L. Markham ’08) TB, 38-40" (96.5-101.5 cm) ML. This beautifully sculpted flower with its high-gloss finish reminds me of nothing so much as a terrific bronze flower sculpture with its outer surfaces burnished to an almost brassy brightness. Blended antique gold beards add an additional artistic touch. With a generous number of tall, ramrod-straight stalks, carrying 7-8 buds and arising out of a clump of ultra-clean, lusty foliage, this definitely makes a statement! Fertile both ways and, considering the wild pedigree, capable of producing just about any color combination.
Sdlg. #97-7B3: 95-10A [dark red self]: ((((Angel Feathers x (Sheaff 60-3: (Hall pink x Celestial Snow) x Arctic Flame)) x Black Taffeta) x Ignition) x Field of Dreams) X Simmer
$50.00
SNOW LION (M. Smith ’08) TB, 36" (91cm), E. 10 to 14 buds. This blended glaciata opens cream, fading to warm white. Petals are tipped in lion-gold. Coral shoulders surround the yellow-orange to orange tipped beard. Dainty flower with lovely ruffles. Leonine strength in its bud production and length of bloom. Very fertile and parent to a family of TB, BB and IB glaciatas, luminatas and fancy luminata-plicatas
Sdlg. #00-24 C (Flights of Fancy X Keppel 92-24 D, sib to Answered Prayers)
$50.00
- BORDER BEARDED -
HOODOO BLUES (S. Markham ’08) BB, 26" (66 cm), M. With this iris we have conjured a lovely display of crisply ruffled, beautifully shaped, diamond-dusted pale blue flowers with contrasting dark blue beards. The plant is vigorous and hardy, with healthy blue-green foliage and plenty of bloomstalks, making a handsome clump. Fertile both ways, with both TB and BB children in the works.
Sdlg. #99-2A: ((Carrara Marble x Tide’s In) x Codicil) X Night Mood
$30.00
SPRINT (Aitken ’08) BB, 24" (61 cm), 3 branches plus terminal for 8 buds. This is by far the most vigorous increaser in this seedling population; thus the name. Domed
blue-violet standards are darker at the petal base. Wide, round, rolling white falls with a slight violet wash at the petal edges are accented by bright coral red beards .
Sdlg.#02M37DT: (Cut Above X sibling)
$30.00

- MINIATURE TALL BEARDED -
BIT O’ ROYALTY (S. Markham ’08) MTB, (diploid), 22" (56 cm), ML. Dainty, well-shaped, slightly ruffled flowers have clean white standards over falls of royal purple velvet with distinct white edges and clear yellow beards. This little princess produces perfect MTB show stalks with at least three beautifully placed branches and triple sockets throughout. A healthy, hardy iris, it is both pod and pollen fertile.
Sdlg. #98-42A: (Consummation X Steffie)
$20.00
ORANGE STARLET (Fisher ’08) MTB, 21" (53 cm), M. 7-8 buds. Exceptional flower form, with standards that are light orange deepening at the base of the midribs. The style arms are orange; and the falls light orange with bright orange beards. Nicely branched show stems.
Sdlg. # 03-1: (Varner Q348 X Mystic Glow)
$20.00
OZARK PRINCESS (Fisher ’08) MTB, 25" (64 cm), M. 7-9 buds. Standards and style arms are white; falls are white overlaid light yellow towards the edges, faint purple vein lines; beards yellow, light yellow at ends. This is as close as we have seen to a yellow amoena in the MTB class. Bloom stems vary with 3 to 5 branches and very dainty flowers.
Sdlg. #03-15: (9TCU7: (TJ4, Aitken 91M9-4 Apricot Drops sib selfed, x 96-4: (TC9, J. White sdlg., x TBH8)) X 9TL7: (TZZ4: (TBH8: (RR4,crosses to Varner P315, selfed, x TS6: (TC4: Puppy Love x Pink Kewpie) x self)) x TANO) x TBS4).
$20.00
STYLISH LASS (Fisher ’08) MTB, 25" (64 cm), M. Sturdy, well branches stems with 8-10 buds. Standards and style arms are tan, with lavender base; falls lavender, veined, tan rim; beards bright orange in the throat, orange in the middle, light yellow at the end.
Sdlg. #04-17: 9TAB7 : (Q118 Varner x TAB4: (TJ1: (TS6: (TC4: Pink Kewpie x Puppy Love) x self) x TT8: (New Idea x New Idea)) x TABO, sdlgs. back to Little Paul)) X 9TP7: (TCC2: (TZZ8: (New Idea x New Idea) x TS8: (TABO TJ1)) x TCK5: (H2: (Carolyn Rose x unknown) x TCC2: (new Idea x New Idea)))
$20.00

- STANDARD DWARF BEARDED -
ANUBIS (M. Smith ’08) SDB, 12" (30 cm), EM. 3 buds. Named for the ancient Egyptian Lord of the Underworld, and as black as it’s namesake. Domed black standards, showing faint maroon tints. Old gold style arms. Pure black velvet falls, very round and handsomely ruffled. Root beer beards.
Sdlg. #02-03 D: (Smith 00-03 C: (Incendiary x Panther) X Devil Baby)
$18.00
EXTRATERRESTRIAL (M. Smith ’08) SDB, 12"(30 cm), EM. 3 buds. A color combination created in outer space. Upright, soft peach standards; white falls with heavy, dark purple stitching. Strong orange halo surrounds a true tangerine beard. Excellent grower, fertile, and an interesting parent, producing seedlings with an array of standard colors and fall grounds.
Sdlg. #02-19 B: (Smith 00-16 P: (Smith 98-14 G: (96-09 P: (Pele x Fairy Lore) x Minidragon) x sib 98-14 L) X sib 00-16 M)
$18.00
MAUI SUNRISE (Aitken ’08) SDB, 12" (30 cm), ML. 3 buds Robust clumps of dark green foliage cover themselves with a blanket of flowers. Closed standards are yellow, falls are orange with a blended 1/8" rim of yellow. Beards are bright orange with an inconspicuous white base. The parent seedling, #87M31RE, has rebloomed reliably the first week of July for 20 years. However, this plant although it exhibits much better flower form than its parent seedling, has not rebloomed. Pod fertile.
Sdlg. #02M72: (Classic Sunrise x 87M31RE: (83M15: (Maybell Wright #L56 x B.Jones #271) X 83M6: (M.W. #L56 x Lucky Duck)
$18.00
NINJA TURTLES (Aitken ’08) SDB, 10" (25 cm), ML. With 3 buds and midseason bloom, this plant quickly forms vigorous clumps for masses of flowers. Very nicely formed flowers are “turtle” (olive) green plicatas. A blue halo separates the green plicata band on the falls from the white field that surrounds the blue beard. Standards are closed and solid olive green. Pod Fertile. Although the pod parent is a rebloomer, we have observed no rebloom on this plant so far.
Sdlg. # 01M22: Little Showoff: (Sapphire Jewel x Baby Blessed) X Forever Blue: ((Shy Violet x 90-45-4: ((Velvet Caper x Michael Paul) x Sigh: (Azure Gem x Chubby Cheeks))
$18.00
SEDONA DAYBREAK (B. Jones ’08) SDB, 10” (25 cm), M. 3 buds. Bright coral pink standards are domed and touching at their tips. Wide, lightly ruffled falls are red-fox brown with wide pink edging. Beards are orange red. Named for the bright morning colors reflected from the beautiful sandstone formations surrounding the city of Sedona, Arizona. Vigorous in growth, profuse in bloom.
Sdlg.#726-2: Cherokee Daybreak) x ((((Live Jazz x Orange Dazzler) x Pink Preview x Tillie)) x Vintage Rose) x Cherokee Daybreak)) X Sedona.
$18.00
- MINIATURE DWARF BEARDED -
AQUADOODLE (Aitken ’08) MDB, 5" (13 cm), ML. 2 buds. White standards and falls with a deep blue fall spot and a bright tangerine beard. Pod Fertile. Both SDB parents tend to throw MDB segregates.
Sdlg. #01M11C: (Mickey Likes It x Fiesta Flame)
$15.00
DEX (Aitken ’08) MDB, 4" (10 cm), MLVL. 2 buds. This is a tiny, bright yellow self with an orange beard. Dainty foliage is about 3" tall. In 2 year clumps this plant produces sequential flowers for a very long bloom season.
Sdlg. #01M15D: (94M42Y.MDB: (91M40 x Hey There) X B. Jones #592-5 orange)
$15.00
- JAPANESE IRIS -
CASCADE RAIN (C. Harris ’08) JI, 40-" (102 cm), ML. 1 to 2 branches with 3 to 5 buds. Large 10", 3 fall flowers rise 6-8" above the foliage. This foliage is bright green with vigorous growth habit and semi fountain form. Flower standards are crisp white edged sharply in purple. Falls are bright blue with large white blaze heavily flecked blue and a sharp 1/4 inch blue rim. White style arms are edged blue, with large upright crests washed soft blue.
Sdlg. #02JH-1: (Hekiun X Peacock Strut)
$35.00
MARGO-NO-SAKURA (J. Griner ’08) JI, 40" (102 cm), M. 3F. 2 branches, 3-4 buds. Upright standards are bright pink; style arms are white with lavender pink tips. The wide falls are bright pink with a fine blue halo around the signal and fine blue veins radiating out from the halo. This is one of the last irises registered by the late Joe Griner of New Jersey, which he named in honor of his wife Margo. We have enjoyed growing it here in the Northwest, and believe it will make a lovely addition to your garden as well.
Sdlg. #BSRV-01, unknown, X Maine Chance.
$35.00