Another forum member sent me the url for the Spuria Iris Society (thanks, Annalee): http://www.spuriairis.com/ On the home page there is a cameo of a spuria iris bloom. The cultivar is named 'Chocolate Fudge'. I think that's my iris! Also, I’ve been made aware of an opportunity to visit a garden full of spuria irises the weekend after next. Off topic, but perhaps of interest to those of you who follow weather: a severe storm just passed over the greater Washington, D.C. area. At least two tornados touched down, one far to the west of the city and another far to the east. A third was seen hovering over the town of Manassas, Virginia but that one did not touch the ground. The anemometer at my sister’s home (about a half hour north and west of here) registered over 70 mph, and in a town near her a gust of over 80 mph was recorded. Here in the garden, terrific gusts out of the east were immediately followed by equally terrific gusts from the west. We have a monster black oak in the garden which last week, on an utterly calm night, dropped a gigantic limb on the neighbor’s garage. I kept an eye on that tree throughout today’s storm: it twisted, bowed and shook but held its ground. Another line of storms is on the way... Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7: anemones, anyone? My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/