I think it is the original Germanica Iris sold by Old House Gardens. https://oldhousegardens.com/store/category/Iris#IR39 I have other historic irises that do not rebloom, if you are interested in a trade. Susan

BIG HUG to everyone who shared about losing their parents. I feel ya! The problem with losing a parent as an adult is not that one misses or needs parenting, it's losing the history and shared memories that is so difficult, at least for me. And then like Funky says, my mother was such an optimist, joie de vive person, and then she died on a most ordinary day, doing a most ordinary thing and there was no happy ending/rescue to be found. I try and appease my sorrow by continuing on with her traditions. I can't hardly have tea in the afternoon though, because my Mom died at tea time. I know that she was probably planning on making herself a cuppa after unloading those groceries, looking forward to it . . . but anyway, teatime is such a strong tradition in my Mom's family, all the kids of all her cousins tell me the same thing, they have all these memories of teatime . . . We had a memorial tea at the library after Mom's funeral (she was the librarian there) and when I got married in 2018 it was just outside of the area where the family farms were, and we had tea in all their honor. One of my Mom's few remaining cousins gifted me with a teapot that my Grandmother had given her as a wedding present. Then ironically my own cousin died a month later of a massive stroke. I still am haunted by her saying that one thing she wanted to do with me was have tea on Grandma's tea set. Never got to do it, although we did have many teas together. I hope this spring I can find at least one relative willing to have tea with me . . . they are far flung now, I doubt any would come to my house, they never ever have, even when my Mom was alive. Only my beloved cousin would visit . . .

Arcy, Jane Fonda has three children, one of whom is adopted. She has two grandchildren from her daughter Vanessa Vadim. When looking for this information I came across this quote in a published article, which I think does her great credit: She also admitted one of her biggest life struggles was being a focused parent. “I regret that I wasn’t a better parent,” she told Brie Larson in their interview. “I didn’t know how to do it. But you can learn, so I studied how to be a parent. It’s never too late. I am trying to make up for what I didn’t know before. When I die, I want my family to be around me. I want them to love me and I have to earn that. I’m still working at it.”

Back then they frequently sealed this type of thing with paraffin. Foods could be canned using a zinc cap and a seperate rubber ring. My grandmother always used these when making her wonderful Apple Butter. I used these back in the 60s; and eventually switched to the much more easily used canning lid we have today.