Wow Mika! It will be so exciting to walk into your garden and see all of your new irises for the first time when they bloom.

Did the irises you purchased from Australia survive?

Wow indeed! Well done Mika!

Just Crazy and Uptown Fashion are both gorgeous and good growers too here. I'm sure you will like them a lot.

I love that there is an iris out there named I'm Groot!

Mika - wow, I love all the SDB's you ordered, and have become a fan of Kat Zalewska!

Thanks, everyone.
Robin, the Australian irises are growing in Menton; they seem happy. I'm so glad they settled after such a horribly long journey from Australia. Sadly because of lock downs and other covid related restrictions (including a ban on travel by Brits to France) we weren't in France when they were due to bloom - so in short, I don't even know if they bloomed. But they are certainly growing OK. I hope that next spring will be the magic moment . But for the moment, there's a hosepipe ban in France and since today there's also a hosepipe ban in Oxfordshire.

I'm glad they are growing OK . I've seen a couple more photos of Final Destination which I suspect are closer to the actual colour than the photo in the Rainbow Ridge catalog.

https://www.decadentdaylilies....
https://www.facebook.com/smoki...

https://www.rainbowridgenurser...

Thanks, Robin - yes the photos are quite different, although the colours in the non-catalogue pics are pretty gorgeous! If I'm ever in France when they bloom I'll take a photo... or perhaps I should try to smuggle them into the UK.

Mika, could you mail them to yourself from one country to the other ?

I could try.... in theory after Brexit I should have a phytosanitary certificate and I don't fancy losing them. Perhaps after they have increased so if they are confiscated I have a bit left in France.

Yesterday I received my box from Stouts. Very thrilled with the bonus plants :


Thunderation, Stout 2022


Reality Road by Burseen, 2019


Glamorizing, Stout 2020
And two really nice SDBs:

Sissy Pants, Stout 2022


Quicksmart, Stout 2022
I don't afford intros, so I am always so happy when a vendor will bonus them. Very generous. Thank you, Hugh!!!

Just gorgeous! Spectacular bonuses!

Gretchenlasater said: Yesterday I received my box from Stouts. Very thrilled with the bonus plants :


Thunderation, Stout 2022


Reality Road by Burseen, 2019


Glamorizing, Stout 2020
And two really nice SDBs:

Sissy Pants, Stout 2022


Quicksmart, Stout 2022
I don't afford intros, so I am always so happy when a vendor will bonus them. Very generous. Thank you, Hugh!!!

Wow, stunning bonuses - what a lovely surprise for you!

Lyn, what beauties!
and Mika...I especially loved the ones from Piatek and Zalewska!

Arturo - sorry to hear of the attempt on the life of your country's vice president. I don't have all the facts, other than the gun pointed at her jammed when the would-be assassin pulled the trigger. We can be grateful for that.

Lyn,
Really a nice group of iris and the bonus iris are really nice as well.

Those nice bonus iris aren't mine They are Gretchen's.

Mika, Nothing But Class by Barry Blyth has such a pleasing combination with shades of color!

Sorry Lyn- - - My mistake---
Gretchen, as I said above- a nice group of iris and bonus iris!

janwax said: Arturo - sorry to hear of the attempt on the life of your country's vice president. I don't have all the facts, other than the gun pointed at her jammed when the would-be assassin pulled the trigger. We can be grateful for that.

Political violence is not conducive to any positive outcome....
The public doesn't have all the facts either. With massive information manipulation, it is very difficult to weed out what's real from what is fake. So for a quiet citizen like myself that keeps away from the political stage, I've learnt along my 7 + decades, that eventually truth will come forth; I don't readily draw conclusions, beyond the reprehensible fact of attempting the life of anyone, anywhere in the world. Imho, life is sacred.

Arturo

Gretchen ~ What a wonderful surprise! You have some beautiful irises!