2018 In Review
The last year was an important one for The World of
Irises. In late October, our number of views passed one million, a significant milestone.
During the year, we have had posts of all types of irises. It is useful to look
back and note the most viewed The World of Irises posts. Here are the top ten
for 2018.
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The most viewed post of the years was "Talking Irises" - THE 2018 TALL BEARDED IRIS BLOOM SEASON: A SPECTACULAR SHOW! By
Susanne Holland Spicker. This was a guest post and we miss Susanne’s colorful articles as she had been on a sabbatical from writing.
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| Image by Susanne Holland Spicker |
The second most viewed post was “The American Iris Society Announces the 2018 Dykes Medal Winner.”
In third place was “The Diversity of Color in Louisiana Irises - 'Unusual' Colors" by Ron Killingsworth
That post was followed by “Photo Essay: A Visit to Schreiner's Iris Gardens” By Mike Unser.
Next was Tom Waters’s important post about the complicated
issues of fertilizing: “Fertilizing Irises.” This post lead to many serious discussions and some of us have changed
our gardening habits based on its information.
Tom Walter’s post about fertilizing was followed in views
by Keith Keppel’s “New Color Combinations in Plicatas, part 2."
Bryce Williamson’s post about the new and yet unnamed iris
species was next: "New Iris Species Azure Blue."
Next in line was Ginny Spoon's post about East Coast
reblooming irises: "Reblooming Iris: A Love Affair."
That was followed by Chad Harris’s article “Iris Ensata,Iris Laevigata, and Pseudota in Containers.”
And rounding out the top ten viewed posts of 2018 was Keith
Keppel’s part 1 of “New Color Combinations In Plicatas.”
