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» Cottage_Garden - Aphrodisiac?

I once had a bearded iris just about this amazing shrimp pink color, it was called Aphrodisiac and is described as varying shades of peach. It did not last very long in my rough and tumble country cottage garden but it was pretty while it survived.

Pink is a sought after color in the iris world. Most of them look either insipid or more orange than truly pink to me -- or perhaps more kindly put, "shrimp colored".

I don't know what variety this iris is, I snapped its portrait in a garden near La Crescenta, CA.

I used the photo for this article because iris are often sold bare root, or more correctly, as bare rhizomes. Take a look at it at Spring Planting Perennials Part One which addresses bare root perennial planting.

What color would you call it? LOL

-- posted by Cottage_Garden