Iris 'Tomichi creek'

One of my favorite Iris and a tribute to dear friends and mentors Joy and Clark Coe who found it along Tomichi Creek near Gunnison Colorado.

The story is they collected it as a super dark form of Iris missouriensis, but it is mostly like Iris sanguinea an Asian species that must have escaped from a homstead.

Clark helped install in me that a job is only worth doing if you do it to you fullest.

hard to believe Clark will have been gone for 8 years this autumn, 1/4 of my life.