Schreiner's is just 10 miles from my house. I recently attended a private event at one of the Schreiner family homes. The display gardens and surrounding fields are amazing!!!

Here are some pics from the display gardens. Every iris they offer is planted in the display gardens, and labeled with the 2013 cost of a rhizome. It really is incredible. They interplant many other perennials (columbine, thalictrum, lupine, and eremerus) that bloom at the same time, so the color is just amazing.



I loved the incredible height of these eremerus between the irises:

Here are some pics of just some of the surrounding fields:

There are so many varieties, that it was hard to choose favorites---but here were a few that stood out to me:

Autumn Riesling


Dance the Night Away


Petticoat Shuffle


So Fine


Ever So Lovely


Vapor

A few more pics from the display gardens, showing the other lovely plantings there besides irises:

And last but not least, as guests of the party---we were asked to take as many cut irises home as we wanted. My friend took 3 buckets full!

And that concludes my tour. I hope you enjoyed it!!!

Stephanie, thank you!! How beautiful!

Gorgeous, lovely, beautiful. Not enough adjectives to describe the gardens. Thank you so much for posting the photographs!

Thank you for the photos.

That you for those wonderful pictures Stephanie. I moved to Springfield this past Fall and have been meaning to make a drive up to look at their gardens but haven't made it yet.

Patricia

Patricia, some motivation huh!!

Thanks!! Just beautiful

My fav was the purple with really dark falls. Thanks for the photo tour.

Gorgeous! It must be a lot of work keeping a place like that in shape even if it involves a lot of spraying or something. In some of those field shots I can't even see a single weed!

Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful!

I have purchased from them and knew they hosted an open garden but live way too far away to visit.
Your pictures are the closest to a visit I will ever get. Thank you!

Lisa

Beautiful Thanks for sharing

A gorgeous place indeed, I was there in 2010 and was amazed to say the least! Thanks for sharing.

Oh my! I used to buy a lot of iris from Schreiner's...iris were my 1st passion...then hosta....then daylilies!

Beautiful pics!