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lauriemorningglory said: Hi Jerry, What pretty irises! I'm afraid it would be very hard to identify the cultivar. Are you thinking that the owners from the 1950s planted them? There are a number of blue reticulated iris cultivars that were around back then. Here are some from the garden.org Plant Database:

Harmony: introduced in the 1950s and is a very common cultivar:

• Reticulated Iris (Iris reticulata 'Harmony.')
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Joyce: introduced in 1943

• Reticulated Iris (Iris reticulata 'Joyce.')
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Spring Time: introduced in 1950

• Reticulated Iris (Iris reticulata 'Spring Time')
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You can also find some information on Iris reticulata and hybrids and some cultivars at the Iris Encyclopedia website:
https://wiki.irises.org/Spec/S...

Hope this helps!

Double thanks again Laurie!!
I spent a large part of today going through that Iris Encyclopedia searching for I. reticulata varieties etc since the first they listed. I put them all in a Word Doc. Now I need to digest it. I see my question is not as simple as I thought. There is a lot of work needed to ID an unknown plant!!

I found the Historic Iris Preservation Society and plan on looking at them a bit more too. https://historiciris.org/ident...