I'd be one happy rabbit in your yard Tom.

Thanks for sharing your methods, Tom!

Thanks for the info on their culture method. A bit extreme for my little yard though. Especially transplanting every fall. Now that would get the neighbor's sending the paddy wagon!

They do the transplanting because they are growing a commercial garden.

That is true Lucy, though I sometimes wonder if it would help to dig them up, add soil treatments, and replant them every two or three years (about when you would divide them).

Stalks coming and starting to form on:
Double Shot
Anxious
Quiet Friendship
October Sky

Still blooming and sending up stalks:
Echo Location
Living on the Edge
Violet Music (no more stalks)
Cocoa pink sent up some blooms, but I missed them while I was nursing my knee. I hope it blooms more...

Superstition has to divide every year. When dividing in our private garden it doesn't hurt to add nutrients, like compost.

True, can't really do the cover crop thing in an ornamental garden, but I do like to amend the soil well after I divide. Alfalfa pellets seem to be a good form of green manure.

Some more have opened up.

Toulouse is an IB blooming short.
The Hybridizer is C. Cromwell from Oklahoma City, OK.


Sunstrip is an SDB by John Weiler.


Trick or Treat by Manley Osborne in the treat mode



Keppel's Easter Candy


Thrice Blessed by John Weiler


Inner Space is a good reblooming SDB by Rick Tasco


Music is an SDB by Keith Keppel


Hell's Fire just keeps getting better.



Marilyn's seedling has a couple more stalks.
It's a cross of the SDB Smell The Roses and the Arilbred Kalifa's Robe.
Kalifa's Robe opened today, but not fully enough to get a good picture.
Joe Ghio's PCI Big Money and a seedling PCI of his continue to send up short stalks.
Hard to get a good picture.

Speaking of short stalks, this IB opened about two inches off the ground.
It was tagged Fond Remembrance, but that's a purple iris so this is an unknown for now.

Dropped a seed?

Lovely irises, Carl. Your unknown IB looks a lot like IB Lemon Pop.

Lemon Pop does not have any orange in it and this one has very colorful haft marks which Lemon Pop does not have. This unknown also has very distinctive "Laced" edges while Lemon Pop does not. Just my two cents.

I had my first bud open on my first iris yesterday, on 'Luminosity'.



yesterday's picture


database

Hmm, just noticed that oddly enough the beard color looks different (pictures taken at different times of the year), but this stalk is definitely from a rhizome in one of the miniclumps from the three original rhizomes. No other irises were ever grown there. What gives? I hope the nursery didn't send me mixed rhizomes! I guess I had better go check for fragrance...

Carl, the color on Hell's Fire is stunningly beautiful.

Poly - check the beard also from different angles. The orangy color could be caused by the shade and angle of the database pic and not because the beard is actually a different color.

I'm so jealous of these blooms! They are all so lovely, but my favorite so far is definitely Hell's Fire, WOW!

You've got some beauties flowing Carl!

So who sells Hell's Fire?

Nola's had it last year. Hoping they open the website in the next couple of weeks...I have a draft order ready...

I don't know anything about Hummingbird Gardens, but that site also shows Hell's Fire.
http://www.hummingbirdgardensc...