The end Hi, glad to have you stop in again, the old tool shed here.
I brought some Iris out, wanted to show you because, well, you know, Iris is one of the oldest flowers.
It goes way back to ancient times as far as we have any record.
They had Iris in the early Roman days and the Greek days.
As a matter of fact, the name Iris comes from the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
The flower has more color, greater range of color than any other flower we have, and that's where it gets its name.
I have some here.
Oh, here they are over here that I wanted to show you because this is quite an interesting one, or both of these together I might say.
The name of these two Iris is Good and Plenty, and there's quite an interesting story about it that I want to tell you.
In fact, I'm going to tell you about Orville Fay because he's one of the leading hybridizers of Iris that developed along with Dave Hall.
I guess just as many or almost more of the outstanding Iris as listed in the symposium put out by the American Iris Society of the Best 100 Iris, Dave Hall and Orville Fay together have got a lot of them listed in there.
Orville Fay had a seedling.
I'm going to show you how he hybridizes them and gets the seeds and plants them to develop new varieties.
Speaking of new varieties, you know that there are over 20 ,000 varieties of Iris listed, and well, this is one that is really a botanical curiosity because you see the seedling, let me put this back, the seedling that Orville developed was planted and when it grew it was divided right up the center and everything on one side was blue and everything on the other side was white.
And the top flower, the actual flower was divided.
Half of it was blue and the other half was white and all the flowers that came out on this side were blue and all the flowers that came out on that side were white.
And then when the rhizomes developed from one side, all those developed blue flowers, blue plants and the ones over here are plants that would produce white flowers.
And here are the descendants, good and plenty blue and good and plenty white.
Well, another thing about these, this good and plenty is, and that is that it's such a well formed Iris.
Just look at this, at the branching.
You see there's a branch up here and another one here, another smaller one there.
The flowers are well spaced and both the white and the blue.
And look, those, if I turn them that way, are just about identical.
Same number of flowers, same branching.
Now just compare that with this one.
Now here's an example of poor branching.
You see this has just a long stem here and a couple of buds right up at the top, very close together.
Well, this is a seedling that just wasn't worthwhile.
And of all the seedlings that are produced, just thousands of them, you've got to raise thousands of new varieties until you get one that's worth trying to propagate.
Well, I have a few others back here of all different colors, very interesting varieties and I want to tell you about them and some of the stories about them.
Well, I was thinking of showing you all these individually.
You know, I've got time lapse pictures of all these and I think it would be better just to look at those.
So let's just take a look at some of the time lapse pictures.
Now let's sit back and just listen to the music.
Now let's just take a look at some of the time lapse pictures.
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