Tucked in a Christmas card, a friend sent me a print of a remarkable iris she grew from seed from the NARGS Seed Exchange several years ago. She told me it was on the list as "Iris 'Roy Elliott'", no doubt at a time when the seed list didn't use "ex" to indicate the seed parent is a cultivar. I don't have a version of the photo small enough to post on the wiki (I'm not sure whether I could scan it adequately at home) but hope to do so in a couple of weeks. I wonder if any of our iris experts can tell us what sort of iris 'Roy Elliott' is? All I have is a close-up of the flower, which looks to me like a Pacific Coast hybrid. The falls are lemon yellow, stippled with dots and dashes of deep purple, and have no beard or crest. The standards, about 2/3 the length of the falls, are white with similar purple stippling and are ruffled on the margins. The broad style arms are pale yellow with a violet overlay that deepens to the median, and their edges are incurved. The grower tells me it forms a clump with short rhizomes and has rather broad leaves that are shorter than the flowering stems. It's a pretty startling flower, and you can imagine my reaction (naked greed) when she mentioned she has two good clumps of it now. Happy New Year, and the snow is finally melting! Jane McGary