I spent about 5 hours or so at Mid-America and barely scratched the surface of the thousands of iris that were in bloom. The SDB's were mostly done at this point but the earlier TB's were all in their glory. There are pics of some of this year's intros in here. Really nice intros will be scattered throughout. In general there are some amazing blooms being created by Thomas and Paul.

I am going to post these in the order I saw them. Some tag ID's were missed or partial but I tried to get as much info as I could on the loads of seedlings. It was on and off with light rain the day I was there but I am sure that Brad will have some nice sunshine pics to post later since he was out there a week after me and in better weather.

My friend Lori and I started at the original fields right by Sebrite Hostas and Thomas' house. Thomas was going down to take pictures of some of the seedlings, and flag those that will be considered for introductions, so we started at that point.

Here are three new 2019 intros:
Hour of The Dawn:

Beautician:

That's Entertainment:

A couple more new intros from Thomas Johnson:

Latest Fashion:



A favorite of mine when I was there - Autumn Tease:




Thomas taking some pics:


Seedling TL-234-B:



And Seedling TI-249-A (Burnt Orange): This is one gorgeous color.

Here is a group of plicata seedlings. I would be interested to know which ones you like.

TI-129-B (reminds me of Class Ring)


TI-180-D


No tag Plicata - my bad.


TI-170-B


and I really like these next two -
TI-172-E


TI-174-A

Thanks for sharing! I went last year and also got to meet Thomas Johnson and others at a meeting. It was on my bucketlist and so glad that I flew out to see it in person. It is a wonderful memory to have.

Yay Mid America visit! I've been looking forward to this slide show. Thank you Leslie for sharing your beautiful photos.

Hour of the Dawn, Autumn Tease, Seedling TI-249A (Burnt Orange)

I was smitten with Autumn Tease from the first time I saw it. It's definitely my favorite 2019 introduction.

Plenty more to come! So many iris I would love to see introduced and in my garden.

Lestv said:Here is a group of plicata seedlings. I would be interested to know which ones you like.

TI-170-B


and I really like these next two -
TI-172-E


TI-174-A

I like TI-170-B and TI-174-A. The gold edge on the standards of TI-172-E is pretty but for some reason I still prefer the two I mentioned.

like T180 D I think that was the number

I like Hour of the Dawn.

That is the number Lucy.

I am sorry to say that the lovely burnt orange one posted above will probably not make it to introduction. I was reading a Mid-America post on Facebook where Thomas mentioned that the bloom was great but the rest of the iris had problems. Hope he continues to work with that color!

It looks like the buds are a bit too close to the stems making it look crowded. It is not fun trashing a nice bloom because it has other problems.

Thank you, Leslie, for the beautiful pictures!

Autumn Tease sure is a beauty.

greenappleagnes said:Yay Mid America visit! I've been looking forward to this slide show. Thank you Leslie for sharing your beautiful photos.

Yes, a BIG

Thanks Tom for pointing that out. I need to get better at looking past the pretty bloom. It is rare down here to ever get 8 buds on a stalk so I do tend to neglect the requirements of bud count and branching. Though I do find that double socketed blooms tend to look more crowded to me than short branching. I would be miserable at choosing intros from these guys seedlings!

If you ever get the chance to attend a judges training, do so, as it will give you a lot of information that is useful if you ever start growing TB's from seeds. Our club had Thomas Johnson do a training for us, and it proved to be really beneficial to me.

I can imagine. He was very informative out in his gardens. On the regional tour next spring we have a judges training stop. I had already thought of tagging along on that one.

Another batch of seedling pretties! I really like all of these, but especially TI-137-A and TI-152-B.

TI-151-A




TI-137-A (it has been flagged - I believe for future study)




TI-82-A - just opening. Would like to see more of this one.



TI-84-A




TI-152-B

And a few more seedlings! The "red" batch.

TI-78-H


TI--79-B


TI-61-A, which has what Thomas is calling bleeding falls for how the red color spreads down over the falls. I think the standards on this one may need work, but maybe it was just the bloom I photographed.




TI-47-A: Love those stripes!

Blyth's Stay Stylish:


Tom's Toronto:


A smallish bloom on Signs of Hope - love the pink beard.



Look how velvety the falls are on Sizzlin' Hot, even in the rain!