Jo Ann....I get a high % of bloom the first year...of about 30 I planted last year only two didn't bloom this spring. 2 years is a long time to be patient. Back to the subject of this thread...soon after I became interested I learned that there was a couple who lived only a few blocks from my home. They grew about 400 varieties and ordered new ones from Schrieners each year to update their garden. They sold rhizomes each year and put that money back in newer iris. We became good friends and pooled orders for many years, mostly to Schrieners and Keith Keppel. We would dig and share increase the next year. They and their garden are gone now. I drive by their home and garden occasionally and it makes me feel a little melancholy. My sweet wife tried to order Beverly Sills the year it was introduced to surprise me but it was sold out so she ordered it the next year. I still grow it. At the first show I entered I had the runner-up to best specimen......a Schrieners ...Post Time. That was a thrill. Good memories.
