This dramatic beauty is called "Starring." It does remind me of glamorous movie stars from the olden days. That black part of a bearded iris is called a "fall" and the white part is a "standard."
Hopefully Penny Lane, Easter Candy, Champagne Elegance bloom before we go on vacation. You miss it; you wait another year. We bought them from the Brecks Catalog years ago. Growing iris requires patience in so many ways.
The breeders have gone nuts, and there are over 300 species of iris in every color of the rainbow. The name comes from the Greek goddess Iris, the divine personification of the rainbow. Her job was to glide along the rainbow to the ends of the earth, swiftly carrying messages to gods and men.
D. H Lawrence wrote a poem called "The Scent of Iris" in which he described it as "faint and sickening." It is the most distinctive flower smell when you bring them inside, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, and especially noticeable walking by the vase at night.
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