PERRY DYER (P. Black ‘17)
AB Midseason-Late 26” (66cm)
Named for long time friend, mentor and dedicated supporter of AIS. Stunning showy clumps filled with stalks. Two branches & 4-5 buds. Strong and easy growth. WE MISS YOU PERRY REST IN PEACE.
AB Award of Merit 2021
Sdlg. T132F: Galaxina sib.

PET PROJECT (T. Johnson ’20)
SDB Late 15” (38cm)
Medium bisque pink Standards, hafts and edge on cream falls. Very large bushy blue frosted beards set the flowers ablaze. Flashy and fun!
Sdlg TJ31A FAB LIFE X OH WOW

PHAROAH’S POET (T.Johnson ’19)
TB Midseason 36” (91cm)
Sweetly scented. Blue white standards are heavily infused rose pink. Falls are rosy pink with lighter area below beards and a lavender rim. A different color combination giving a unique effect.
Sdlg. TF125YY: Blyth T46: (Rite of Passage x Avenue of Dreams) X Avenue of Dreams.

PHOTO SHOOT (T. Johnson ’19)
TB Midseason-Late 36” (91cm)
A super clean and sharp pattern really makes PHOTO SHOOT stand out with its pristine white ground and precise blue to violet dotting around both the standards and falls. A dark violet black bar across the hafts and deep purple style arms add to the drama. Even the beards add a bit of mystery being yellow in the throat then becoming lighter with violet tips. Super nice ruffled form completes the package. Not just another purple plicata!
Sdlg. TH156B: ((TE11A: Circle of Light x TC343A: Sib. to Hysteria x Danger Money)) X TD314ZZ: (Blyth O211-A: Ostentatious x (G48-5: Burst x Epicenter)) x Ring Around Rosie x Blyth R41-6: Sib. to Stay Stylish Pollen Parent.

PIRATE BABY (T. Johnson ’18)
SDB Late 12” (31cm)
Near solid purple plic standards over creamy yellow ground. Falls have yellow to cream ground with purple plic band and deep purple black hafts.
Sdlg. TH207B: (((Incindiary x Brash) x Chart) x Raspberry Crisp) X Unwritten.

PLUM LOCO (K. Keppel '21)
TB early midseason 38" (97 cm)
Medium mulberry standards; falls creamy white with deep mulberry band. Great stems and color!

PORTLAND PINK (P. Black ‘15)
SDB Late-Very Late 15” (38cm)
It was tagged for introduction from its maiden bloom. Saying it is unique is a vast understatement. It is the best formed of all the pink SDBs. Color has great depth and richness. Its one flaw is some flowers have a 4th standard. It is a big advancement in my project to create SDBs that bloom into TB season. It begins bloom in early TB season. How cool to have a SDB for a TB timed show. The cross that created it, an IB X IB, shouldn’t have been fertile but it did have viable seed. Even more amazing, ‘Portland Pink’ is fertile. It can be picky about its partner but can have anywhere from a few to normal numbers of seed and they germinate. Shorty, the pod parent, is from a pink tetraploid MTB seedling X my SDB, ‘Juicy Tidbit’. The pollen parent is a multi-branched & budded IB from a small flowered TB, ‘Inspired’ sib X my SDB, ‘Love Spell’. Growth is strong and increase rapid. Although it is from 2 IBs, it has never exceeded SDB height. What about using it in hybridizing? Go on, have your way with it. It is fertile with SDBs, IBs, tet MTBs, BBs and TBs. I haven’t tried MDBs. Expect wide variation in flower and plant size of seedlings.
Cook-Douglas Medal 2021
Sdlg. T234A: Shorty X (Inspired sib x Love Spell)

PROPHETIC DREAM (T. Johnson ’20)
TB Midseason 36” (91.5cm)
Standards have a yellow ground, showing more in the centers, that is overlaid with deep raspberry plicata dotting and becoming more solid at the edge. Falls have a yellow and white blended ground with raspberry plicata hafts and edge. Show stems carry up to 9 buds.
Sdlg TI186A TF95D:(SORBONNE x Blyth Q39-1:(Keppel 99-150A:(FOREIGN LEGION x Keppel 96-47D:((PRINCE GOERGE x BRAGGADOCIO) x MY GINNY) x EXPOSE)) X TF77D:(LOCOMOTION SIB)

PUERTO VALLARTA (T. Johnson ’21)
TB Early 36” (91cm)
Puerto Vallarta the iris kind of reminds me of the beautiful sunsets over the ocean on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, thus the name. Brilliant golden yellow standards. Falls have dark yellow hafts that blend to a lighter lemon wash and finally deepening to a mustard yellow edge. Salmon shadings are deeper at the haft becoming a blended wash inside the yellow edge. There is also a large white patch below the intensely saturated yellow/orange beards. A very consistent garden performer with show stems and 9 buds. An easy and strong grower that really adds a bright spot of color in the garden. Super!!
Sdlg TJ103YY: In the News X Dressed to the Nines.

PUSSYCAT EYES (P. Black ‘19)
AB Midseason-Late 28” (71cm)
‘Pussycat Eyes’ is an altogether amazing quarter bred arilbred. Easy growing arilbreds with such strong aril characteristics are rare and even more rare is having 2 branches and at least 7 buds. Palest lilac standards surround yellow styles. Wide, arched falls have big black signals giving way to a dark cherry area and then to mid red purple and finished with a 1/4” tan gold band. Grows easily in average garden conditions.
Sdlg. W305A: Energizer X Careless Whisper

PUZZLED (T. Johnson ‘15)
TB Midseason-Late 37” (94cm)
Yes, it will always be a puzzle as to what the parentage is since the tag was lost. ‘Puzzled’ is such a unique creation that most people won’t care. Standards are buttery peach with orangish texture veins. Wide and ruffled falls are an interesting irregular maroon wash over light lavender ground blending lighter toward edges. Beards are dark orange. Show stalks have ample buds. Growth is strong and increase abundant.
Sdlg. TD81B: Born This Way sib

QUE SERA SERA (T. Johnson ’20)
TB Late 32” (81cm)
Light lemon-yellow infused pink standards, flushed heavier in the centers. Lavender and rose blended falls with deeper texture veins and lemon buff edge. Large gorgeous ruffled form. Not a color for everyone but one that I love and look forward to seeing each year. Definitely unique!
Sdlg TG68ZZ TC339A:(HYSTERIA x ARE WE IN LOVE) X HAUNTED HEART (Sib to last years Champagne Dream)

QUEEN OF DARKNESS (P. Black ‘19)
SDB Early-Midseason 14” (36cm)
She does rule supreme in the garden. Iridescent red purple standards and styles sit above purple black falls set ablaze by big bright orange beards. Clumps packed full of stalks give a long bloom season.
Sdlg. Y292D: V340B: (T271F: (R284 turquoise plic sib: (Graph x P168G, Total Denial sib) x Q95A, My Cher sib) x T272 wine sib: Unknown) X U159A: (R222C: (Devoted x P199A: (T.Johnson TX100A, pod parent of It’s Amazing x N334C sib, pod parent of Worry Wart)) x (Devoted x P144A: ((L223A: Brash x Pink Frosting) x Pink Potion)))

RADICAL RASCAL (P. Black ‘20)
SDB Midseason-Late 12” (30cm)
How to describe the ever-changing? Sometimes it is white with very little mid lilac plicata marking and other times it has only a small amount of white showing and all sorts in between. Either way, it is unique. Thank you, Sarah Schwass, for the name.
Sdlg. Y265G: Cool Dude X (V217B: Pinky Ring x S324E, Notation sib)

RISE LIKE A PHOENIX (P. Black ‘17)
TB Midseason-Late 46” (117cm)
From the ashes rises this magnificent creation clothed in dramatic plumage. It instantly demands respect and attention when it appears. Vivid gold standards base is lined and rimmed mid auburn and repeated around upper 1/3 with wider margin banding. White veins surround dark marigold beards on red black falls. Ample rufflling gives this Phoenix an extra lift. Strong show stalks have 3 branches and 10-11 buds. A strong sweet perfume is a bonus.
TB Award of Merit 2021
Sdlg. U53A: (Opening Number x (Ransom Note x What’s My Line)) X Reckless Abandon

SAY THE WORD (T. Johnson ’21)
TB Mid 35” (89cm)
Some iris just remind me of food, perhaps it is just my insatiable appetite talking, but this one reminds me of some sort of yummy mango flavored dessert. Say the Word has very ruffled mango to peach blended standards and edge on white falls with a deep mango wash on the hafts and below the beard. A good grower and bloomer, Say the Word is a stunner; especially in full sun the color really shines. Very unique and won’t be confused with another. Gorgeous!!
Sdlg TJ326A: Blyth W51-1: ((Novel Idea x Gypsy Lord) x Magical) x Master at Arms sib) X Blyth W49-1: (Free to Dream x (((Alpine Harmony sib I’m Dreaming sib) x Platinum Class sib) x ((Wicked Woman x Pop Star) x (Wedding Belle x Starring)) x unknown))

SERGEY (T.Johnson ’16)
TB Midseason-Late 34” (86cm)
‘Sergey’ is an unsually gorgeous and subtle blue and yellow blended bicolor that was much admired at the 2015 AIS convention. It has wonderful form, growth, buds and stem. It is Being used heavily in breeding. Named in honor of our friend, Sergey Loktev, who has been a great advocate of irises and a frequent garden visitor from Russia.
Sdlg TF100A: Cameo Minx X First Avenue

SHOCKAHOLIC (T. Johnson ’20)
TB Early 30” (76cm)
Light pink standards are overlaid light orange and have deeper orange veins in center and peach band. Falls are a rich deep burnt orange with fully saturated tangerine beards. I wish the branching was a bit wider and the stems a bit taller but the color is dynamite, simply nothing like it!! Always stops visitors to the garden in their tracks!
Sdlg TI249A HANDFUL OF MAGIC X Blyth W75-1:(T201-1: (R89-2: (N245-3: ALPINE HARMONY SIB) x (O228-4: (L133-7: I’M DREAMING) x L304-1: PLATINUM CLASS SIB)) x (R38-1: (P109-1: WICKED WOMAN x POPSTAR) x (P20-1: WEDDING BELLE x STARRING))) X ?)

SMILES ALL AROUND (T. Johnson ’20)
TB Midseason 34” (86cm)
Beautiful creamy white with Lemon edge becoming much darker at the hafts and fall edge. Beards are orange. What really makes me smile is the extremely elegant wide and ruffled form. Beautiful!!
Sdlg TI3ZZ DANCE TILL DAWN X HAUNTED HEART

SNAPSHOT (T.Johnson '08)
TB Early-Midseason 32” (81cm)
Snapshot may be short of stature but you won’t overlook the powerful presence of its bright colors in your garden. Blazing yellow-gold standards continue as large sunbursts etched onto centers of mahogany-red falls. Mahogany veins radiate over sunbursts. Zingy gold beards amplify the sunburst effect. Growth is strong and robust. Stalks have two branches and 7 buds.
WISTER MEDAL; Runner up to the Dykes '16 and '17.
Sdlg. TW6C: Bold Vision X Next Millennium.