The bearded irises that does not do well in warm temps are the shortest ones, MDB's. I was originally told by my local iris society that they will not grow here. I have around 40 and they grow and bloom but I keep them in pots and I do put them on the north side of the house during the winter so they can get cold for a bit and then in the summer I afford them some shade. I can grow about any of the others with the exception of the pacific coast natives. Louisiana's love the humid heat and my unguicularis is lush and bloomed two weeks ago.

Sherry, how cold are you talking about? We're in the middle of a very VERY warm spell .. close to breaking records .. we'll be in the 50's and 60's at night until this coming Friday when we'll drop down back to normal in the 30's for the weekend.

grannysgarden said:The bearded irises that does not do well in warm temps are the shortest ones, MDB's. I was originally told by my local iris society that they will not grow here. I have around 40 and they grow and bloom but I keep them in pots and I do put them on the north side of the house during the winter so they can get cold for a bit and then in the summer I afford them some shade. I can grow about any of the others with the exception of the pacific coast natives. Louisiana's love the humid heat and my unguicularis is lush and bloomed two weeks ago.

Oh crap.. There goes my lysdexia again. MDB, not MTB. Can't we just call then Fred and Lucy so that I can keep them straight?

Ann, it's been cool in California. It was 47 degrees at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, and getting close to freezing when I went to bed last night. I haven't checked the low from last night yet. The rest of the country is getting what we had the last two winters.. Warm and sunny.

70's here today...... neither Fred nor Lucy is happy!

Wild weather indeed! The contents of my greenhouse refuse to go dormant! It's a jungle in there.

But I would be happy. 60 here, but not tomorrow.

It was 24 degrees on Monday morning when I left the house at 0630.

Ouch

Ouch indeed!

Especially since we were 60 in MA today.

Phillipb2 said:It was 24 degrees on Monday morning when I left the house at 0630.

That's what you get for being up so early!
It's supposed to be colder tonight. I probably should have covered the lemon, but then I'd have to go outside... Brrrrr

It's definitely been cold the last couple of nights. (cold for us Central Californians)

Yeah, Tom is probably spewing hot chocolate out his nose laughing at us wimpy Californians complaining about our near freezing temperatures..

@Xeramtheum
Has it opened yet?

No, but in looking around I noticed that another one has a bud and this is one that got moved! The buds look way to immature at this point to be opening.

Henhouse said:Yeah, Tom is probably spewing hot chocolate out his nose laughing at us wimpy Californians complaining about our near freezing temperatures..

Drinking a La Croix, lol, but not spewing. It's warmed up to about 25 from an earlier 20 degrees. Just two days ago I was running around in a tee shirt feeding horses, and still sweating. Today I am back to a jacket over a sweat shirt. We are supposed to have a few cold days, and then warm up again. Such a crazy winter. It's a good day for soup, so I'm making vegetable soup.

P/S: I don't like it when it freezes in California, makes the wine and oranges cost too much!

Tom, A good chili is god on the cold days or a nice bowl of beef stew in a bread bowl and corn bread.

How tall are the leaves and how wide are they? Is that a ridge down the middle of the leaf? Could be a JA. I don't know if they rebloom.

Most of the smaller median irises need cold to really thrive. MDB's are the hardest of the medians to grow.
And they bloom early. They don't grow well in California. I've only seen three in bloom and they were all in the eastern part of the country.