I was disappointed by Wayside Gardens' website, but I grew up on their paper catalog and still consider it recreational reading. We had some really amazing gardening going at our last house, including one of my favorite plants ever, a Joseph's coat rosebush that cheerfully overgrew half the deck and bloomed for ages in half a dozen colors; that bush was entirely Wayside Gardens' fault.

And yes, Steve is divinely beautiful. I expect they just ran out of other names for irises, or else decided that in a genus called largely things like "Butter and Sugar" or "Irene," they wanted something manly. Cause it's blue, you know.

And 'Isidore' wasn't good enough? ;)