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I have been very impressed with Cheyenne Spirit. I've been growing both the red and the yellow since 2012, and they are without a doubt, the most vigorous Echinacea plants I own. Cheyenne Spirit is the first to leaf out the and the first to bloom. In my garden, the red is a shorter plant than the yellow, but both are great. These plants have lots of blooms with wonderful vibrant color that can be seen from a distance. They bloom a long time too. This variety is really noteworthy in all its characteristics. Highly recommended!

Schreiner's Garden notes 'Fringe of Gold' has 5-6 blooms.

This one is nicknamed 'Victoria Falls Down' because most of the stalks flop over. It is still an iris I like to keep because it has a lovely fragrance & so many flowers. I consider it a cutting iris & bring the stalks that flop inside. They are absolutely delightful as they lightly perfume a room. The flowers open a darker periwinkle color & lighten as they age.

Schreiner's Garden lists this as having three main branches and two spurs with up to 14 flowers. It is reported to have a tendency to rebloom. Various members of my family have grown this variety many years, but it has not rebloomed for us in zone 6b.

Beautiful, huge red flower. It took mine several years to establish itself & bloom, but it was worth the wait.
Schreiner's Garden lists this as a 4 1/4" x 6 3/4" flower with four-branched stems bearing 8-10 flowers.

Every Mid-April to May I am delighted by this flower. It blooms for about a month & has a heavenly fragrance. Sometimes I think it smells lightly of grape soda & other times I think it smells like a fine soap. It's my favorite spring wildflower.

Even though this is a deer resistant plant, we have a large local deer population & they have eaten the flowers off of some of our shooting stars.

Nice tall iris that doesn't flop over. Beautifully saturated falls, they absolutely glow. This one of my favorite iris!
Schreiner's Garden lists this as having three branches with 8-9 flowers.

Beautiful vibrant purple falls. It is fantastically tall & doesn't flop over.

Schreiner's Garden notes that these flowers are very large and there are 10 per stalk.

Rosy Returns seems to have the best color when provided with full sun. When I grew this plant in partial shade it had a less saturated bloom color & wasn't very pretty in my opinion. I moved it, and in its new location it gets 10 hours of sun. The color is now much more saturated & pleasing to the eye. It also blooms a really long time in my garden, sometimes until frost.

Edgefield Glow bloomed with 8 double socketed buds its first year in my garden. The serpentine shape of the stem is graceful & interesting. The flowers are a beautiful orange, medium in tone & moderately strong in saturation - much like a ripe navel orange. This one can be seen from a distance & it glows in my garden, even on the cloudiest of days. One of my favorites.