I live at sealevel on Willapa Bay, 15 miles north of the Columbia River and a mile from the Pacific Ocean in SW Washington, where I garden on silty sand. This area has wet mild winters and rather dry summers, zone 8; though during strong El Nino-Southern Oscillation events, which are warmer, it's almost a zone 10. I'm a botanist and a confirmed iris-lover, especially Pacific Coast native species and hybrids. Lilies, and other geophytes are also of great interest to me. Many species grow well here, slugs and deer aside, so I tend to focus on those that deer leave alone (they grazed my first plantings of juno iris to the ground a few years ago). In a few weeks I'll have photos of a very yellow iris that I purchased some years ago as Iris innominata, but which is clearly too large to be that species. I hope someone amongst you will be able to help me identify it. Kathleen