This Pleasant EarlyBird is half the height and very pale in bloom. I blame everything on March-April reverse weather.


Half as tall as last year and washed out color.

I aggree with you on that.

Started here too Jo Ann, just a week ahead of schedule.
Silverband

I have just a few blooming now but it looks like I will have a lot more in the coming days .

I love love love Japanese irises .

Hands rubbing together. pics, Pics, PICS.

Here's a beauty that started blooming a couple of weeks ago next to the gray water drain in my garden. I don't know its name and I don't even remember planting an iris there.

oooooh that is very pretty

Ok here are a few...

Always my first, Pleasant Earlybird and TB Goodnight Kiss:



Coho (first and second photo are first day; third photo is of mature bloom):



Reisyun (with A. christophii in background of first pic.):



Need to see what is still on my camera...

My JI's have real buds.I have watched a few for days.Maybe with the hot weekend comming I will see blooms. Mine ate shorter this year.
The color better be there. Pleasant Earlybird was a disapointment

only one is Gubijin...boo hoo but the spuria have started blooming

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Love ALL the pics, including your Pleasant Earlybird Jo Ann. Good luck with the rest. LI Sinfonietta and a huge NoID opened today. Will get pics tomorrow.

Love the color on that surprise zuzu. We should all be so lucky. Connie, are the first two pics of Coho day one of bloom? The pink seems a bit more intense than the 3rd pic. Dee, are you breeding with Gubijin?

Evan, yes! The third picture is of a filled out mature bloom. I think I will edit my post to indicate that. I was going to do that when I first posted but it doesn't take much to side track my brain!

Thanks Connie. I've noticed while looking at sellers sites, (and ATP and Cubits) that both form and color can be hugely variable. I know some of that is conditions and figured some was age. Coho was one I remembered when looking at pinks.

Silverband, less 3 bloom stalks
Pseudata Okagami
Versata Enfant Prodige

Love the white one

Beautiful, Evan!

Tell me about growing Pseudata....Japanese are difficult here. Are Pseudata any easier?

Thanks, what a treat.

This is my first Pseudata Paul and it was planted the first week of April, 2012. Of those I planted this spring Okagami and Enfant Prodige look to be the only to bloom. They're obviously water lovers so what I did was plant it deep, like Polly describes in her beardless culture article. In addition to that I left the soil level of the hole about 2" below the surrounding soil to make a bowl. In early May I top dressed with composted cow manure which I covered with shredded leaves. I'll take a pic of the "clump" tomorrow. You'll chuckle at the size.

Wow these pics are beautiful,. I just got my first 3 JI from a friend and i can't wait to see them blooming in my garden.

Mine are just starting.Some are shorter than last year,others have mis formed blooms.
Prairy Glory ( this clump is 4 years old and has never had more than 2 bloom stems in spite of regular feeding)

Fractal Blue

A NOID might be Frosted Plum

Frilled Enchantment eaten beyond all.

I am waiting for a huge bloom to unfurl.I dont know which variety it is either.