Second order came today from Old House Gardens. Website
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Eleanor Roosevelt. Introduced in 1933. From the
Heritage Iris Preservation Society web site, quoting an earlier Cooley's Iris catalog: "
From the Cooley's Gardens catalog for 1937: "Deep flourite purple self, with very rich falls". Flourite purple. Cool! This is described in 1937 as the "
leading fall-blooming iris in commerce today, because it increases very fast, is most reliable in flowering habit...one of the most beautiful irises in the garden... "
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Mme. Chereau. 1844. This description, quoted from the Heritage Iris Preservation Society site,
hips-roots.com, is great: "From the Cornell Extension Bulletin 112 (1925): "
Color effect a lavender-white plicata. S. White bordered hortense violet, beautifully ruffled. F. white, with deeper hortense violet, slightly purplish tinged plications." Who would have thought, "hortense violet"?
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Mrs. Horace Darwin. 1888. Horace Darwin was a son of Charles Darwin. I guess in those days, some flowers were named for women without actually using the woman's name. In this case, from
wikipedia, Mrs. Horace Darwin was " Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer in January 1880, later Lady Ida Darwin". Then again, she got a flower named after her.
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Shannopin. 1940.
All photos are via the Old House Gardens website, linked above. These went into the iris raised bed. There were other plants occupying the spots where I wanted to place these. Some simple transplanting was done.
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