Hi There is a variety of Iris mentioned on your website called Bon Vivant. Please can you tell me if there is anywhere I can purchase some from ? I have a friend who had this name as her kennel name.
She has just passed away and I would like to plant some in her memory.Many Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards

Sonia Hickman

It's a very old cultivar, from 1962/63 so most likely no longer in circulation.

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post.

I've moved this thread to the Iris forum in the hope that someone may have a piece of this cultivar or know where to find it.

I checked the HIPS "Commercial Sources" list, and there are none listed for it.None of the HIPS members have reported it on their "Grow" lists, either, so....it's going to be a REAL hard one to find!!

This is what it looks like:
http://wiki.irises.org/TbAthru...

I'm thinking that the photo is not old, so someone somewhere must have had this iris more recently than 1963...

if you dig into that photo on the wiki.irises you will find that "Irisgal" took the picture. The wiki person who posted it was Betsy Higgins and it was posted in Nov. 2011.

It is a Plough iris so it may be out there at Thelma's. She had lots of his iris. They don't do mail order though, only dig for you when you visit.

So far nothing in Europe/England though, where OP is from.

Hi Sonia,
Like most replies I don't know where you can source this iris and I don't stock it here at the nursery.

I have asked a colleague in California if he can track it down. I know you left a message on my answerphone so apologies for not getting back to you earlier. But if I get a lead I'll be back to you.

You might inquire here:
http://www.irisparadise.com/Ir...

Fritz has an amazing collection, and might know where to find this one!

Thank you everyone of you who has taken the time to reply to my message.I am very grateful to you for all your suggestions and for your help with my search for this lovely Tall Bearded Iris.

I am not giving up yet not until every avenue has been explored.

Hi Chailey,

How lovely to hear from you.Don't worry about not having got back to me I am sure that in this weather and during the run up to the bank holiday you have been rushed off your feet.

Thank you for replying on this site and for contacting your colleague in California for me.

I will keep my fingers crossed the news is good.