I only have pastel or rose tone pinks so these TB names are based on photos. My disclaimer :-)
But hopefully this will spark somebody's memory for the deep pink you want.
(How deep is "deep pink"?)

deepr pinks can take you into rose tones
Foolish Fancy (Hager)
Rancho Rose (plicata) - good with lavender or yellow

or winey pinks
Danielle's Love (Ragle'03)
Dark Heart (Ernst'02)

Bright pink takes you into orchid/fuchsia/neons - all with blue influence.- photos will show wide varience in color
Delirious
Flushed Delight (Vizvarie'90)

possibilities to look at include
Cherry Sparkle (Schreiner'79) one photo-looks a bit on the winey pink side
Coming Up Roses looks like a bright pastel
Code Red (Aitken'03) looks deep pink? or russet? in different photos
Dolce (Black'03) looks bright clear pink with falls more orn-pink
Earlirose (Schreiner'80) looks bright clear pink
Elmer's Blushing Bride looks bright with falls toward mauve pink.
Guardian Angel (Keppel'05) looks bright pink in one of two photos I've seen.
Hunter Pink (Stanek'00)

Have you been to Snowpeak Daylilies and Irises site? You can view an entire page of thumbnails and click on one for further information. The descriptions and photos are quite accurate.
http://www.snowpeakiris.com/iris2000/navpage.htm

Check out Dave's Garden too. Some good photos as well as a few wildly inaccurate ones.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/finder/index.php?sname=Iris&submit=submit

Magical Encounter, Schreiner, is the most vivid pink I grow in the TBs. Eye Candy, Keppel, is shorter, but very pink.
Rod

For pictures, go to Blue J Iris and click on
'color & type categories.' Lots of choices under 'pink.'

Here is a link that might be useful: bluejiris

Thank you so much iris gal and criris! I'm going to look all of those up. I am really enjoying checking out named iris that I see mentioned often on this forum. I envision many happy hours this winter of doing just that ----and making lists! lol

Thanks too Thurston for mentioning BlueJ iris. I have been pouring over their site and making lists but thought I would post for some personal experiences/favorites of the gardeners here. Also I wonder sometimes how true the photos are in pictures. Lighting and --well-- so many other things affect photos. Thought maybe some here would mention their favorite pink and why it was their favorite----reasons like fragrance, intensity of color, number of blooms, vigorous, etc.

I just saw a picture of Lady Friend and it was so gorgeous! It may lean to more of a magenta or raspberry pink? But I love it! Soooo many shades of PINK!!!!

Thanks everyone for all of these ideas!

aunt lou

Lady Friend is a difficult color to capture.

It's truly a garnet color. Not ruby or magenta.

A beatiful unique color and one of my favorites.

One of personal favorites is Looking for Love...warm rich pink. My Ginny is another.

Denise

I agree with Denise, Looking for Love is my favorite pink.

Shadow

Wow!!! Now that is what I am looking for! That is gorgeous! Thank you for telling me about "Looking for Love" and posting the picture too. Such a beautiful pink!

Thanks again,
aunt lou

Hi,
I also am searching for a flower in this color range.

Check out this link for a photo of "Hunter Pink" which I find very striking:
http://www.hort.net/lists/highlight.cgi?bits=3&search=Hunter+Pink&URL=iris-photos/jun06/msg00129.html#marker

Unfortunately, my Hunter Pink did not survive (succombed to rot), so it will be a while before I can see if what I can grow will look this deep.

The iris "Ovation" is said to the deepest shade of pink. I grow "Entice" which is said to be "Ovation pink." Here is a link to a photo of Entice:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/147578/

Schreiner introduced a new iris called "Ever So Lovely" this past year, and from the picture it appears to be a very deep shade of pink. I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures of this flower or, better yet, seeing it in real life.

And since you liked "Lady Friend," for another really cool colored iris--not pink but a stunning red--check out "Popstar" by Barry Blyth. I planted mine this fall, so I'll be hoping to see it bloom in the spring. I saw the photo in his catalog. Couldn't find it online.

Good Luck,
Mike in SC, Zone 8

Oh, WOW! Now that is what I'm looking for! That Hunter's Pink is exactly what I want. Where can I get it? Anyone know who carries it? Thank you so much, mikesc!!!

Precious Little Pink(Byers by Phyllis Dickey 1995)that is an IB and is a continious bloomer for me. It will bloom all season if it gets mositure and the temp. does not get too hot. It bloomed three times this year and this has been the worst year in my lifetime as far as heat and lack of rain. It also puts on a lot of increase if the conditions are reasonable. Lee Mincy

Hi,
I am sure that Superstition Iris Gardens sold "Hunter Pink" last year. They don't have a web site; however, someone on here probably can give you their address so that you can request a catalog. I have received great plants from them.

Sincerely,
Mike in SC

Saw many lovely pinks on a tour of Oregon gardens.

First planted Lady Friend 1992, fell in love, moved. Planted a new one 2005 - it's not the same color! Both came from Cooleys. Heard somewhere many on the market are not true to name. However, both are AWESOME, one more rose, the other more garnet. LF is quick to increase and grows like a weed for me.

The reds are difficult to photograph, and each computer monitor changes the colors, so it is hard to get a true color.

Never been fond of pinks...but....Guardian Angel is the best warm pink I saw - have NEVER seen a good photo of it. Peppermint Cream was pinker than its photo. Wearing Rubies was dark pink to rose red, but photos make it look dark red.

This year I purchased those and Kitty Kay, Lacy Day, Ovation, Society Page, Femme Fatale, Geniality, Glass Slippers, Gayle Ellen (bonus), Paradise, Ballycastle, Alice Goodman, Ambroise, Haute Couture, Beverly sills, Role Model (bonus), Passion for Pink, Frisco Follies, Pink Magnolia, Blue Chip Pink, Highness, Luxury Lace, and Ming Rose. LOL - I'll have to let you know how they rate one against the other for "pinkness" !!

Musician is one of the prettiest bitone pinks I've seen, and again, I've never seen a picture that did it justice. It is gorgeous.

Thank you, bmast! That gives me many more lovely iris to look up on cold winter days. Many of the ones you have mentioned here are totally new to me----haven't heard them mentioned before.

I am wondering what it would look like to plant a color wheel or rainbow garden of iris. In other words plant them in their own color groupings from blue into purples into magentas or red violets on to red/pinks then orange/coppers to yellows----like the progression of the rainbow. That would be quite the flower garden wouldn't it? Anyone here ever done that?

Thanks again for all of the lovely ideas!

Aunt Lou

I think the rainbow garden of iris would be really pretty, what a good idea. I am also looking for pink but in siberian iris. I hope this isn't to far off topic. I have been looking for the past two years, I have a bed of siberian iris near my lake and pink would look so pretty down there. Thanks for any help.

Patty,

There are lots of siberian iris that come in pink now. An older one that you should get quite reasonable, and that multiplies well is Pink Haze.

Thanks for the tip. I'll look for it.

You're welcome.

Here's a nice site for siberians. Fond Kiss would be a nice pink also.

Here is a link that might be useful: Joe Pye Weeds Garden

I have a pale pink, paler than either of the photos referenced in postings above. pledase contact me if you would like me to send you a picture of it.

Perhaps next fall I can trade you a rhyzome. I JUST divided them this last fall, so I want to make sure they are all ok before giving any away.

Mark-

Here's a link to my pink iris....

polly...nice siberians!!!

And here I thought the 3 siberians I have are enough!!!

Guess I'll have to look for some more!

What a beautiful pastel pink iris, Mark! I would love to trade you one of my rhizomes come summer for some of that one.

Happy find! Blue J iris is selling Hunter's Pink this year! Yay!

Wow, gorgeous, luscious pink siberian iris. Now to figure out a budget. Thanks for the input, lots to choose from.

polly, thanks for the link gorgeous pictures. patty

Pink is also a matter of soil content!

My mother and I have traded Iris for years, she is 20 minutes north of me. I will swear an iris she gives me is not the same as hers. I cut a flower from my garden and take it to hers. There is ALWAYS a slight difference in color!. Then of course she wants the 'new' iris back! :)

Just anothe thought on which pink is pink.

Also I have found that the picture on the package or catalogue is not necessarily what you get.

I have included two shots of un-named pinks. My mother keeps misplacing the list she had of all the iris she bought over the years. Most of them over 20 years ago.

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I've found that there can be a slight, but noticeable difference in the shade of pink of my "Erleen Richeson". All of mine are from the same original "mother", but the ones planted closer to my house where the soil is more clay and less loam are more peachy colored than the ones in my gardens near our woods that are a bluer pink. In all my locations "Erleen" is a terrific grower for me and seems to bloom no matter what our winter conditions were.
Shae

Sooooo many beautiful Pink Irises! I had no idea! Don't know how I am going to choose just one or even two now.

I believe in that soil making a difference theory on the color of blooms. I have had daylilies that I knew were a certain named daylily and the markings/eyezones were not as bright or the color in general was just a bit different than pictured in the catalogues or plant files.

Getting true color pictures of irises (or any flowers) can be difficult. Sometimes the camera (even digital cameras) alter the color somewhat and sometimes it's the printing process. I had to have over a dozen of my iris pictures reprinted because they looked one color on my monitor, but were printed out with too much of a pink or red tone. Sometimes, though, it is the bloom itself that is just a bit different maybe because of soil conditions and/or weather conditions. The temperature can affect the depth of color of the blooms.
Shae

I have a Beverly Sills & it is a warm, light pink -- not deep--but lovely.

I used to work at a printery. Let me tell you, the pressmen run a few sample sheets of a run, and check the colors against the proofs --- if the lighting is a little off or the printer himself is a little color insensitive, you can get a bit different shade in the catalog than what the flowers will do---pressmen don't have a problem with colors "everybody knows" such as skin tones, the red white & blue of the flag or the red of a firetruck, but the finer points of shadings in esoteric things like the thousand greens of hostas or the pinks, blues, etc of irises, roses, and so on, are not something most are going to be aware of.

There is an international color card system, and this is used for checking color, but sometimes if the image does not "look right" an adjustment might be made on the spot -- leading to a something like a slighter deeper pink flower, or a ladies sweater which arrives at your home a different shade from the one in the Bean's or Lands End catalog.

And then of course there is variation in your soil, in the sunlight the plant receives, in minerals in any fertilizers used, and all that. I wonder if you could even deepen the pink by grinding up red cabbage at just the right time & adding it to the soil right around the plant!

LOL ok, so now I know what to do with leftover cabbage the kids don't eat....

I know of that color card system, it's numbered, right? but i forget the name of it - would be nice if we'd all adopt it to help identify colors in catalogues! "closest to #135" "dead on 112" and so on

Yes, it's by numbers. And there are thousands of them! It's from a company called Pantone.

My daughter did a science project once in which she used natural dyes (pokeberry, red cabbage,onion skins, walnut hulls, beets, etc) on a range of different fabrics to see which took up the dyes the best. Red cabbage dyes things blue & you would be surprised at how deep some of them came out!

I know that florists plunge stems of flowers like carnations into dye to get things like green carnations for St Patrick's Day -- I wonder whether you can water a white or lt pink flower while it is stil on the plant, with some color, and get it to change? I'm not advocating doing it--but it would be fun to see if it worked. Of course, the leaves would change color, too!