'Bayou Metairie' (Patrick O’Connor, R. 2020). 35", Midseason bloom. Standards dark salmon fading to rose-brown, yellow wash at base, narrow sienna center line; style arms edged dark khaki, tips rosy brown; falls dark salmon fading to rose-brown, goldenrod spear signal narrowly edged sienna surrounded by sienna wash and veining, sienna line extending from tip to middle of petal. ('Victoria Inn' x 'Metairie Ridge') X 'Avelline'. Cindy's 2021

From Patrick O'Connor, the hybridizer, about the name Bayou Metairie: A historical bayou created by the Mississippi River that ran through Jefferson and Orleans Parishes, connecting to Bayou St. John and on to Lake Pontchartrain. Almost all of the bayou is filled in now.