Mary Ann ~ I was just commenting on the ones I liked best, thanks. This year I am going to need to get rid of a lot of my older iris. My garden space is definitely too small!!!

Oh -- OK. Well -- if you're eliminating Irises this year, you'll be needing new ones next year. Maybe we'll connect then.

I'll keep you posted of what is going. I feel obliged to support my local iris club through their rhizome sales so I suspect the cleared space will fill fast! I definitely went a bit overboard last year. (by my standards)

Yes -- but now that you've joined us here, it's likely that your standards are going to undergo ummm -- revision.

Well, I am limited by the size of our property, which is smallish.

Convince your next-door-neighbor to move to Arizona. Buy the property. Raze the house. Fulfill your life-long fantasy of surrounding yourself with Irises!

I learned this technique from Arlyn -- don't have enough room for your Irises? -- buy more land!

Yep, that would work.

Mary Ann, there are so many delicious ones here! Thank you for posting. I can sure see why you like Copper Mountain. Newyorkrita sent me some Rio Rojo last year and I am really looking forward to when it blooms, especially after seeing your photograph.

Mary Ann,

That's very nice of you; I'd love to trade for starts of PM and your NOID. I'll try to remember to contact you after things have bloomed. BTW, I didn't mean at all to suggest that your BMW is incorrect--it looks just like all the pictures of BMW around the internet, so I'm sure that's it. It's just that I was unfamiliar with it and was surprised to see something that looks so similar to what I thought was a wildly unusual cultivar. I suppose the lesson here is that there are a *lot* of irises out there and there's almost certain to be a look-alike (or two) for any given cv. That said, I'd love to see a shot of BMW and SDM together, provided their bloom seasons overlap.

Some very nice pics Mary Ann! Black Magic Woman is an Early to Mid season bloomer, and has PBF, also is fragrant, Sharp Dressed Man is Mid Season, and not much fragrance, also, I don't think it has PBF. I think it may have been Betty who talked about having both last year, and got an extended season by doing so. Not sure though.

Debra -- I think you'll love Rio Rojo!!

Thanks, Tom! Some of those looked pretty familiar, right? (wink)

Brett -- I made a note. We'll talk next summer!

Well, yes some looked familiar, but I'm thinking maybe I'll see even more familiar ones next summer????

I sure hope so!!! And I should see a couple'a familiar ones in your photo line-up!!

I finally got a good enough signal to check these out, MaryAnn! And they ALL look super ! Good job with the photography, also ...Arlyn

I should have a lot of bloom this year, many of the ones I planted in 2012 didn't bloom this year, I think due to that hot summer, so I have many of them, plus the more then a hundred I planted last year, so If they all bloom. I'll be going crazy taking pictures. There should be some from you, Mary Ann that bloom this sumer. That being said, If spring doesn't show up I may just have to keep shoveling snow until July! Snow predicted two days this week, and temps near zero all week.

Aren't irises the most wonderful plants in the world? We plant them and if they do not bloom we just build up more anticipation for the next years bloom season! They bloom in the spring, we buy, plow and plant in the summer, they re-bloom in the fall and we make list and talk iris all winter and plan where to put the next iris patch. Early spring we start anticipating seeing the new catalogs and then a bloom stalk like kids looking forward to Christmas. People have said to me that since irises only bloom for six weeks or so they are not worth much room in their garden. If they only knew that iris season last all year long! smiles

Spoken like a true addict!!

Start with miniature dwarf & go up through tall bearded & Siberians. Can other plants do that?

Mary Ann,
I will complete a list of my requests when I visit during bloom season.
Dennis

OK Dennis -- that'll be fine!