Irises! (yard, garden, critters, perpetual calendar)

[elainegrey]

Due to "popular" demand, here's some iris photos, and links to more:

 

Bearded Iris

First, the Iris society has description pages for 'Jurassic Park' (Larry Lauer, R. 1995) and 'Edith Wolford' ( Ben Hager, R. 1984)  I don't know how to read those ancestry descriptions but 'Edith Wolford' appears to be an ancestor of 'Jurassic Park' .  There's also Abigail Nichole (which i stumbled across at a historic iris vendor's site). I think the falls are all wrong.

I have many of these and could/should part with some. So here are photos of the ruffled iris, that has yellow standards  (matching the "clear canary yellow"of Jurassic Park and Edith Wolford, blue-purple falls that become more pale at the edges. The beard is yellow in the throat and tipped with blue, which is different from the Edith Wolford description, "blue beard tipped orange."

Click through for larger.

My temptations, despite saying "no more iris other than Louisiana and native irises"

• Caprice iris     1898 because heavy grape scent -- or maybe
• pallida Dalmatica iris     1597 with Concord grape fragrance!   And from 1597!
• Crimson King iris     1893 heavily scented, reblooms in fall!
• Flavescens iris     1813 Lemon scented!!!

Yeah, i don't have enough sun. But, wowsa.

BUT the new black gamecock Louisiana iris has bloomed:

And the blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) is blooming as well!

And here's a bonus Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea). They are kinda bulky - have they been eating cicada?