Rodger Whitlock wrote, I. lazica is a good doer: I have enormous clumps that were planted >out 15 years ago and have done well even in conditions of not-very- >good winter drainage. Unfortunately, it is an unkempt plant not >suitable for the more carefully groomed gardens. Moreover, the >rather washy flowers appear at a time when much else is flowering; I >cannot place it in the front rank of iris species. I must have a different form, or it is responding differently to the colder weather here than in the Victoria area. It is a pretty tidy evergreen with little dieback, forming a compact clump, and the flowers on mine, which I bought many years ago from Avon Bulbs in England, are a fairly bright violet. They are, however, well down in the foliage, and show up well only when a lot of them are open and not devoured by slugs. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon