More plant stuff.

[kiya]

Meet Steve. I really don't know why this iris is named Steve, but I want to get me some Steve and plant it somewhere.

Posted here because I was discussing Steve with autumnesquirrel last night, and also because if I put a link to Steve somewhere I'll be able to find it later without finding oneironaut and asking pathetically, "Where's Steve again?"

Isn't Steve pretty?

(I have now lost 'Steve'. Steve, Stevestevesteve. It's not really a word, is it?)

Comments

[pameladean]

I see that Wayside Gardens has smitten you.

Be careful. After resisting their blandishments for years, I suddenly ordered three rosebushes. I am now waiting to see if they have survived their first Minnesota winter.

WG's hardiness information is sometimes a bit optimistic.

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.

Pamela

[kiya]

The Wayside Gardens thing is all oneironaut's fault. He's a wicked temptress, I tell you.

Well, of course, blue would make for a terrifically butch iris. Hee hee hee.

[pameladean]

*choke*

They're on safe ground there. Absent the iris borer, almost all irises are butch.

Pamela

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

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? ;)

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

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

I just realized what an incredibly stupid thing I said -- gift of Isis, not gift of Iris, and furthermore duh.

And it was so amusing until I realized I had my letters switched around. Woe.

[pameladean]

White Flower Farms' website almost outstrips their catalog. Almost. I agree that Wayside's is but a pale shadow. And yes. I keep them and reread them. I think it was Susan Sontag who once, when asked what her favorite book was, asked if she could say "The White Flower Farm" catalog. This is essentially perverse, but still, I sometimes see the point. WG's prose is different but so evocative.

Pamela