Wow! How lucky you are to be able to visit the farms during bloom season. Thanks for sharing all the photos!

So many nice blooms, I can't keep up! Thanks for sharing the photos!

Solar Sunrise

Creature of the Night

Cosmic Voyage

Ok sooooo lots of pic's and I went to one more nursery Sister's Iris Farm. I only took a few pic's because I was lucky enough to spend most of my time talking with Robyn and looking at her lovely iris progeny, so many fascinating crosses! Robyn was really lovely and I took up lots of her time with questions

Enter the Dragon

Head over heels

Dragon Kiss


Jersey Bounce

Thank you for posting so many beautiful pictures. You must have had a wonderful time.

So that's it pretty much sums up the trip. Thank you Barbara for mentioning the other Iris farms! I did buy one Iris, Elf Esteem from Mid America. I have a few in pots waiting to get in the ground. It was really fantastic but a long 5 and1/2 hour drive home.

Thanks for the Acorn LoveMyHouse!

Rebekah - Btw the way that was me in the garden at Robin's when you came by. Nice to see you had a great time!

Rebekah said:
So that's it pretty much sums up the trip. Thank you Barbara for mentioning the other Iris farms! I did buy one Iris, Elf Esteem from Mid America. I have a few in pots waiting to get in the ground. It was really fantastic but a long 5 and1/2 hour drive home.

Rebekah ~ SO much for taking the time to take all of those beautiful pictures for all of us!

You're welcome Rebekah, glad you made it to so many vendors, and taking us on your trip with you.

Oh Leslie, I would have chatted your ear off if I had known! Did you visit a number of the iris gardens as well?

Thanks for the acorns Evelyn and Barbara!
I'm glad to be able to share the experience. usually I'm not one for taking many photos but I thought the irises were just amazing I kind of just started photographing without really even thinking about it. I was almost overwhelmed by the saturation of color, It was almost difficult to stop and take in the details of a singular cultivar.

We spent yesterday morning at Adelman's peonies and the afternoon at MidAmerica. We went with Robin to visit Keith Keppel today and had just gotten back a little bit before you arrived. We are going up to visit with Chad at Mt. Pleasant tomorrow, then on to Seattle.

Nice job! Great show, Glad you enjoyed the trip and shared it with us.

I agree, thank you Rebekah for sharing your trip with us! I really enjoyed seeing the overall shots of the gardens, and all of those luscious seedlings at Mid America.

Your detailed shots just confirmed a few must-haves, ones I've added then taken off the wish list over the years. It looks like you had great weather / lighting conditions while you were there. What good fortune, your photos are wonderful!

I realized I should have added one thing to my earlier post. It was a tremendous honor to meet Keith Keppel, but I would be remiss not to add that his gardens are not open to public viewing. My visit had been planned months ago.

MidAmerica does have open visit times. You should check in with Iris Sister's ahead of time because Robin has a day job along with running her gardens.