CONVENTION
COVERAGE
‘Enchanter’s Spell’ (Rick Tasco 2013, AB) (OGB) ‘Gideon’s Lamp’ (Pete McGrath 2004, AB) (OGB)
Wilson Garden raised beds 'Seea Chia Smile' (Tom Burseen 2015, TB)
dark black chevron signal.
The great expansive TB bloom was led by ‘Seea
Chia Smile’ (Tom Burseen 2015) with ruffled lobelia
blue standards over light red-purple falls. Almost all
of the stalks had three open blooms each. ‘Honey
Dripper’ (Barry Blyth 2009/2010) was great in
butterscotch apricot over the same color falls overlaid
with red-burgundy.
'Joy Returns’'
(Robin Shadlow 2016, TB-RE)
"Flashinator'
(Barry Blyth 2013/2014, TB)
Other superb TBs included: the rebloomer ‘Iron
Eagle’ (George Sutton 2000) with its wide overlapping
falls, the iris in off white, almost grey with antique gold
beards; 1949 Dykes Medal winner ‘Helen McGregor’
(Robert Graves 1943) in lavender-blue; ‘Flashinator’
(Barry Blyth 2013/2014) in golden yellow over ruffled
burgundy, edged tan; the bright yellow space ager
‘Glitter Gulch’ (Tom Burseen 2009); the blue-violet
Summer 2018 AIS Bulletin 41