Skies Always Blue

Blues, at the forefront of TB lines, are extremely elusive in arilbreds.  The color is also very difficult to capture.  In this case, the color of the standards is best described as sky blue.  Photographers like to take flower portraits using the sky as background, but in this case the ground color blends right into the blue of the sky. 

The style arms are a slightly softer blue, with yellow midribs and bright yellow  style crests.  The falls are also a soft blue with hairline rim of yellow.  The inner portion is marked by heavy rust veining, but the veining becomes thinner and more violet as it spreads over the blade of the falls.  The beard blends from mustard-yellow in the throat to blue-violet at the tip, lessening the contrast between the beard and the black signal.  The violet wash that extends outward from the signal burns off in the New Mexico increasing the contrast of the veining.

This is a three-quarterbred, an unbalanced tetraploid from Werckmeister's Beauty X Child of God.  Its I. hoogiana heritage gives it greater gardenability than most near-arils. For show aficionados, its ASI code is OGB+.  To be introduced in 2005 by Malevil Gardens.