Lucy, I can't begin to imagine the work involved in moving an entire business out of state! I'm taking all of my daylilies with me, along with a couple hundred daylily seedlings that I've hybridized, and most of the rest is going to stay. It's just too much work! The iris were very easy to move, but I didn't move too many of them!

Greg, don't discount Colortart as being a spring- only bloomer. There are a LOT of iris that were not registered as re, that do so, quite well ! Vanity, and it's daughter Beverly Sills, are 2 that come to mind. It may take an extra "warm" zone, or ideal soil and weaher conditions, to get a "late show", but thats the thing that makes life interesting !...Arlyn

Natalie said:

Here's a big clump in my backyard. All of these were supposed to be pink, and as you can see, none are. The ones that look kind of pink are peach. Do any of you know of a pink that reblooms well?

Pink Attraction reblooms for me in zone 5. It's an older cultivar, though, and doesn't have the depth of color (or the ruffles) that many of the more modern ones have.



Double Platinum was introduced by Joe Ghio just last year and is supposed to rebloom. I don't grow it, so couldn't say how well it does.

Oh MEEEEEE "Double Platinum" is so pretty. I'd love to have that in my yard wth all it's ruffles. Stunning!

Thanks Kent! I love them both! I honestly don't mind if iris are older, and maybe don't have the frills that the new ones do. Both are equally pretty to me. I don't even care about them being registered, or knowing the names of them, since I have no intention of hybridizing. More than anything, it's the color that I am interested in.

What is that blue beauty in your photo? It's STUNNING! The two behind it are also STUNNING! My main goal is to get a few pinks that will rebloom, but I can't have only pink! That would be boring! I also love blue, black and dark purple.

They're all seedlings.

I'd like to introduce the blue reverse amoena, but need to see how well it grows for another year or two before deciding for certain.



Tossed the neglecta a couple of years ago. Its flower stalks fell over sometimes and the flowers were pretty ordinary.



The last one would probably rebloom if I babied it a bit, or if we lived in a milder climate. One parent reblooms and the other has thrown quite a few rebloomers, and it grows like a rebloomer. Not sure what to do with it. I really like its growth habits and the branching on its flower stalks, but don't know if the flower itself is good enough to introduce. In the meantime, I've been makings crosses on it.

Thanks so much for the close-up photos! I can't imagine tossing that middle one!! I know you said that it had bad habits, but it's so gorgeous, and I don't think that there is anything ordinary about it!

I have one that is very similar the the third one, which is one of the iris that I moved to Idaho. The smell is heavenly! It was supposed to be pink, but wasn't. It came from a friend who was dividing her pink iris, and she promised me that it would be pink. I suspect that they were in terrible need of being divided, and some weren't blooming because of it, and she forgot what all was in the big clump of them. I was thrilled when I saw it bloom, even though it wasn't what I was expecting. Yours is much prettier though. It's much fancier. The color is very similar though.

The first one makes me drool so bad that it isn't funny!

Paul, love that first blue one, and hope you do intro it. I would buy for sure.

Natalie,

My reference to "Sterling" is because that cultivar was hybridized by Sterling Innerst. Sterling Innerst hybridized over 200 irises in his lifetime and was local to my current South/Central PA digs. I am trying to collect all of his introductions. A TALL task. So I overly gush about his plants.

Greg

Both "Again & Again" & "Over & Over" are his work. They both are just ok to look at, but reproduce/increase at a crazy rate.

Thanks for the explanation Greg. Gush all you want!

I really like Over & Over!

Pink Attraction rebloomed here in zone 6, one of the few TBs which did so. Natalie, Suttons want to work on cold weather rebloomers, so perhaps you are in the right place.

Lucy, do you know what area the Suttons are moving to? The state really varies on the weather. Most people assume that since it's a Northern state that it is a very cold state in the winter. I was under that impression myself. We're moving pretty far North, but the zone is supposed to be 7b, which isn't bad!

They didn't say, just Idaho. zone 7 isn't cold weather rebloomers according to me.

I guess "cold" is a relative term. But I'm wit you, Lucy, I'd call zone 7 warm!....Arlyn

Zone 7 is warm to me, especially after being in 5a for the last 11 years. We went up to Idaho in January to see what the winter was like, and it was raining a lot. At our house in Utah, at the same time, there was so much snow that it was crazy! It did snow while we were there, but melted really fast, and I never had to put my heavy winter coat on. We ended up buying while we were there because it was so much nicer than here in Utah! That doesn't mean that there aren't very cold areas up there, but we're not moving to a cold area. The elevation at our house up there is just under 1,700 feet, compared to 4,600 at our house in Utah, and that makes a huge difference.

Ah -- now I understand. It's all about the elevation! From the viewpoint of a midwesterner (flat-lander) -- Utah and Idaho are pretty much interchangeable as far as climate goes. But I never took into consideration elevation. Thanks for explaining that!

Good explanation.

WOW, I never thought about this either and of course, I had to pop on over to Wiky to see what my elevation in GUntown, MS is, 400ft. I'd get a nose bleed at your home Natalie!!!! I couldn't breathe either. You'll probably have a remarkable increase in energy just because of the increase in oxygen you'll be breathing. Ain't life interesting???

I lived at 600 feet in IL before moving back here, and I really couldn't tell the difference. When I moved here the first time, 21 years ago, it took me about a day to adjust, but I never really had a problem with it. Other people suffer bad when moving here from a low elevation. I couldn't tell any difference when we were at our house in Idaho, compared to here, and I sure didn't have more energy! We were there for 2 weeks, and I could have used a burst of energy! Many people are fine here once they get used to it, but if they leave for any time, like for a vacation, they have to readjust to it when they get back home. I'm just lucky, I guess.

About the only time I've noticed thinner air here is when my husband and I used to drive to the mountains a couple of times a week to look at the wildflowers and wildlife. We have a GPS in our truck, and the elevation was 13,000 feet where we'd always park and enjoy the view. The first time we went up there, I got out of the truck and hiked up a steep road a bit, to see if we could easily drive up it, and I got winded kind of quickly, which surprised me, until I realized how high up we were! Then I didn't feel so bad!

The area in Idaho that we're moving to is supposed to have the 2nd longest growing season in the state, with the 1st longest being Lewiston, which is about 30 miles west of there. I'm so excited about having a longer growing season!

Illinois is my home state Natalie -- where in IL were you?