Well, Most of my Iris are newer. My mother was a gardener but never grew iris. Both my grandmothers moved away to flordia when I was young so I never knew a garden from either of them. A few years ago while we were building our house I met a woman who has become a second mother to me that I fully blame for my iris addiction. I feed her fire and she feeds mine. Our husbands laugh at us because they think we're crazy. She gave me my first iris from her mothers yard. That year I placed an order for my first modern iris, snowed in, connection, millennium sunrise, be a dream, and great gatsby.