greetings from the Columbia coast
Kathleen Sayce (Sun, 04 May 2008 11:03:54 PDT)

I live at sealevel on Willapa Bay, 15 miles north of the Columbia
River and a mile from the Pacific Ocean in SW Washington, where I
garden on silty sand. This area has wet mild winters and rather dry
summers, zone 8; though during strong El Nino-Southern Oscillation
events, which are warmer, it's almost a zone 10. I'm a botanist and a
confirmed iris-lover, especially Pacific Coast native species and
hybrids. Lilies, and other geophytes are also of great interest to
me. Many species grow well here, slugs and deer aside, so I tend to
focus on those that deer leave alone (they grazed my first plantings
of juno iris to the ground a few years ago).

In a few weeks I'll have photos of a very yellow iris that I
purchased some years ago as Iris innominata, but which is clearly too
large to be that species. I hope someone amongst you will be able to
help me identify it.
Kathleen