{"id":371,"date":"2002-04-14T00:07:40","date_gmt":"2002-04-14T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-08-29T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:58:07","slug":"iris-altruist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/iris-altruist\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris ‘Altruist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline: 2002<\/strong>
\nThe bearded irises have really begun blooming this week, beginning with ‘Altruist’ on April 8th, then ‘Champagne Elegance’ on April 9th, and ‘Incantation’ today.<\/p>\n

Whenever an iris opens, I fall in love with it, forsaking all others. <\/p>\n

Zanthan Gardens History<\/h4>\n

Monday March 19, 2000<\/strong>
\nAmong my Schreiner’s order this year, one ‘Altruist’ ($7.50).<\/p>\n

2001-04-11. Second to bloom in this row. It is not very blue, but more lavender. It is more flouncy and more open than \u201cMystic\u2019s Muse\u2019, matching the description from Schreiner\u2019s quoted above. I brought them both to work today and their colors complement.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong>
\n2002-04-08.
First flower of 2002 on ‘Altruist’ and first flower this year of all the bought irises.<\/p>\n

2002-04-22.
Altruist has produced some spectacular stalks, each with many flowers. As for the note above, it only seemed less heavy because it was not fully open.<\/p>\n

2002-06-02
One of the Altruist rhizomes had rot. Dug up five rhizomes and soaked them in a mild bleach solution, then replanted them in the front square. The one that had rot was one that already bloomed, so it should probably be thrown out. It was small and didn\u2019t have any babies. One other was very small and three were good sized and will probably bloom next year.<\/p>\n

Thursday April 10, 2003<\/strong>
\nFirst flower of 2003.<\/p>\n

Monday April 5, 2004<\/strong>
\nFirst Flower. Iris ‘Atruist’ is also the first flower of all the bought irises.
\niris<\/p>\n

Tuesday August 28, 2018<\/strong>
\nSchreiner’s no longer carries this iris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Description from Schreiner\u2019s Iris Lovers Catalog 1999: <\/p>\n

\u201cAltruist\u2019s cool azure shading lightens to a luminescent chalk white along the midrib and around the berd. The ruffled and fluted petals emit a soft effervescence, yet the substance is surprisingly heavy. Two branches and a spur with 8-9 buds. Tall bearded. EM Light blue fall. Light blue standard. Beard white. 1987. HM 1989,AM 1991.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}