Was I. domestica - plant names
Theladygardens@aol.com (Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:42:52 PDT)

I do realize that some botanical names have a real meaning or reasoning but
being friends with many iris hybridizers I know very well the names they
choose may mean something to them or nothing at all. I have helped find names
for a couple of hybridizers. Sometimes it can be quite a challenge as for
Iris names, you must hunt through all the Registration checklists to make sure
the name hasn't already been used, make sure you are not offending a good
friend by using a name that would fit a series he or she considers theirs, etc.
I have all the iris checklists books and spent a couple of months looking up
names daily for a friend until he found and settled on a name to be used on a
new Louisiana Iris he introduced.
Many are named after a friend or relative of the hybridizer naming them.
Knowing the hybridizers I realize sometimes the names they choose fit what is
going on in their lives at the time. This would not be obvious to people who
don't know them.
Carolyn