Moon Blaze and Pilgrim's Choice

[Garden_of_Mu]

Here are two oddly coored little irises. the blend is much better in real life than in the photos - they both have a wonderful glow about them that the camera doesn't catch.

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[bengal]

Oh I love those! Nothing odd about them to my eyes!

[akita]

I really like 'Pilgrim's Choice'. It's also interesting to compare the form of both irises, 'Pilgrim's Choice' introduced in 1990 and 'Moon Blaze' introduced in 1964. Both are very pretty in different ways.

[laurief]

It's really impossible to get the true impact of Pilgrims' Choice in photos. It can look bland in a mug shot, when in real life it is fantastically serene and calming. It's moody hues should be in every meditation garden or planted near every garden bench where one can sit and reflect in peace. It's one of my very favorite SDBs.

Laurie

[Garden_of_Mu]

There's a few irises like this that I usually say have an 'etheral' quality about them, and the camera never captures it. I wasn't sure I liked PC last year when it first bloomed, but this year I am really enjoying it.

[laurief]

It's funny because I have a distinct dislike for "muddy" colored irises (typically those that fall into the mustard yellow range), but PC is much more mellow or perhaps melancholy than it is muddy. It's particularly beautiful here where the anthocyanin blending is more pronounced in my cold climate. "Ethereal" is a very good descriptor for it.

Laurie

[Garden_of_Mu]

I feel the same way about these blends of yellow and blue - they usually are muddy looking and don't thrill me at all, but this one is very different.

We've had a very cold spring. I wonder if that is making it better this year than last, which was warmer much earlier.