A New Iris!

As usual, I have iris in my garden that are labeled as one variety, but turn out not to be that variety! I am kind of a 'careless' gardener, in some ways. My mother always marked the plants and then made a map to show where each one was planted in relation to the others. After a year or two, the map wasn't always so useful, but with the combination of labels and map, we could generally figure out what was what.

Two years ago, I purchased two iris at the local iris club sale. This is the first one to bloom and it is not what the label says. It could be that I mixed them up, or they could have been mislabeled at the sale. Not all my iris have buds, so I won't know until next year if I have something else I don't recognize, or if I can solve the mystery.

If I don't figure it out, I will just call this one "Las Vegas Surprise!"