I'm sorry that I'm so clueless (or brain dead) that I missed your health problems, Elsa... I was too focused on your dog's loss, I guess. I also hope that you are doing better, health-wise.

LICHEN looks interesting, if it's that good of a rebloomer.

(Now if only we could get some TBs that would perform like that!)

Hmm, that's odd... the database has LICHEN as a TB, but also listed at 29". What's the height cutoff for the different classes of irises?

big, and many hugs elsa, on the loss of your four-footed love. sorry to hear of your health problems, and hope you're on the mend?

Thank you Derylin, Daphne and Marilyn. Marilyn, Thank you so much for catching that Lichen is a TB. It grows like an IB for me (height-wise), but I have had it a long time so I should have remembered it is classified as a TB. I will go back and edit my post to correct that.

TB Wildside Walk - Ahh I loved the colors on this. High quality Iris.


SDB Stop and Stare: This is a fantastic little grower and bloomer. Thank you again for this one Dirt.


TB St Petersburg: I loved the green and violet slightest tint that these blooms sometimes have.


TB Margaritaville: Another great performer. I redid this garden again last year and this Iris still didn't skip a beat but just blooms and blooms.

TB Montmartre: Ahh this is everything you all have said it is. And the kind of Iris you just have to see with your own eyes to understand it's beauty. Thank you So Much Leslie


TB One Bad Hombre: Pretty Cheerful guy and heavy bloomer. But my favorite attribute of this Iris is that gray rim. It is such a true color of gray.


TB Other Voices: I know it is dull but it has proven itself by always always showing up each year, so it can stay.


TB Patriotic Colors: Very colorful.It reminds me of fireworks.

TB Plot Line: The first year I had this, the wind knocked off it's bloom stock, and then it just didn't do anything for several years. I redid the garden last year and this year it just went nuts. Not only did it bloom and bloom but the blooms continued to all remain healthy. I just fell in love with it.


TB Precious Thing: This is such a bloom machine. It starts early for the TB's and just blooms and blooms. And the blooms really do look precious...precious and cute.
Here is a pic of it with double beard:

Here is a picture of it just going nuts.


TB Pumpkin Cheesecake: I never get tired of the color on this iris


TB Real Zeal Deal: Grows very tall, well tall for my garden which is probably about 40".


TB Roadmap: Always interesting

Such lovely photos, Elsa, and such a lovely variety of colors in the irises!

But is 'Real Zeal Deal' *really" about 40 ft? That'd sure be something...

40 feet would be one heck of a record breaking iris there. Would need to be in a 2nd story of a building to see it well.

Polymerous said: Such lovely photos, Elsa, and such a lovely variety of colors in the irises!

But is 'Real Zeal Deal' *really" about 40 ft? That'd sure be something...

Maybe I am posting just a bit too late at night. I will fix it Through my mistakes, I do have to say I feel honored though that you actually read my posts

Here are some more 2023 Season photos:
TB Roper's Revenge - This is a really cool unique Iris:


TB Salt and Pepper - An every year bloomer that I never get tired of


AB Sand Dancer - One of those Irises that shows just how varied the world of Irises really is:


SDB Sea Dart - This is one of Kent's. This is the 2nd year it has bloomed and is a good grower. The shade of green on parts of this Iris are very good though this particular photo doesn't have much green. Really love this little guy.


Kent's SDB Seedling 19-D-03R This is another good grower and close enough to green to make me happy. I wonder if he has introduced this yet?

TB Stellar Lights - Heavy bloomer and shows up every year:


SDB Green Fingers - A little wonky this year and not very green but it has really been beautiful some years so it isn't going anywhere.


Here is one of my Sky and Sun X Butterfly Affair seedlings. This was a first year bloom. I am very happy with the shade on this. It is a good medium blue.


Here is another of my Sky and Sun X Butterfly Affair seedlings. This also was a 1st year bloom. I love the light blue coloring as well as the green on the shoulders. I am hoping this is a good grower cause this is something I would like to introduce if it is.


And this is one of my St Petersburg X (Sky and Sun X Butterfly Affair) seedlings. I know I don't label them right. I will have to go back over what you all told me last year about how to label them and keep it on my computer somewhere but hopefully you can get an idea of it's lineage. This was another 1st year bloom. Now on this one, I can't say there is anything super special about it but I just loved it. I loved the lines on it and thought it was pretty so it gets to stay another year and I will see how it grows/blooms.

Here comes a bee pod seedling. This is Telltale Fingerprints X Unk. It's really funny because color wise it does not look anything like Telltale Fingerprints. but it does have the substance and Telltale Fingerprints has great substance. I do like this one. It can stay another year to see what may be. Also, I do have to say it's interesting because I have tried to cross Telltale Fingerprints multiple times to no avail, but the bee's accomplished what I did not. In addition, this bee pod put out a huge amount of seedlings


And here is one of it's siblings. It doesn't look half bad in the picture but in real life it was not pretty. Very dull. This one got culled.


And here is another of it's siblings. This was just kinda unique so I am watching it for another year.


IB Gaslight - One of my favorites for it's green shade.

IB Fast Forward:


My Eyes Don't Lie X Tennessee Women Seedling. This is the 3rd year it has bloomed. It is a Very heavy bloomer and grower. It is also a proven pod parent. I just don't know if it is pretty enough to ever introduce but I will keep it around for now and just keep watching it


And here is one of it's ugly siblings that just bloomed this year. It was culled.


TB Decorated Artifact - The plicata markings on this were really cool this year.


SDB Algorithm - This was a late bloomer for an SDB and absolutely dressed to impress.

GreenIris said:

My Eyes Don't Lie X Tennessee Women Seedling. This is the 3rd year it has bloomed. It is a Very heavy bloomer and grower. It is also a proven pod parent. I just don't know if it is pretty enough to ever introduce but I will keep it around for now and just keep watching it

I'm not fond of the overall color, but what is interesting about this seedling is how the beard color echoes on the tip of the falls.

GreenIris said:

Here is another of my Sky and Sun X Butterfly Affair seedlings. This also was a 1st year bloom. I love the light blue coloring as well as the green on the shoulders. I am hoping this is a good grower cause this is something I would like to introduce if it is.

I like this one, too. Nice light blue and looks like a bit of a broken color. Gentle ruffling. How tall did it get? TB height? Do you recall when it bloomed (early, mid, late)?

Elsa, I am so sorry to hear about your loss of your dog. It's heartbreaking when they go.
I also hope that your health issues have improved. Sending my prayer's that everything is looking up.
Thank you so very much for posting your beautiful iris pictures.

Hi Laurie: Thanks for the comments on the seedlings. I really do like to get others perspectives. I had never really looked at the beard color on the one seedling and how it is played out on the falls, so thank you for the observation. And the light blue seedling was probably about 34". But in most gardens, it would probably be taller. It is definitely a Tall Bearded.

Hi Barbara: Thank you so much. My health problems are still up in the air. But I will know more in early January I believe. I really appreciate the prayers and I would appreciate any more anyone wants to send my way, until I find out one way or the other what is going on.

TB Babbling Brook: This is probably in my top 5 favorites of all Irises. And it was really really blue this year.


TB Doo Wop Memories: I don't like the openness of the standards but love the soft shades and coloring of the falls.


TB South Padre Island impersonating Bee Hotel - I have seen bees doing this before and kept thinking they were dying but later realize they are no longer there and must have flown off. I googled it and it sounds like they like to sleep on flowers.

A prettier picture of South Padre Island:


TB Iris Clarence: Glowing away in the sun like Clarence does.


TB Iris Glitzy: This is a heavy duty diamond dusted sparkler.

TB Iris Autumn Bugler: This is a rebloomer and it tries real hard but it is not a standout. So I think I will move it to a bad part of the yard and see if it still performs.


TB Kerfuffle - Every year I see this(top one) when it is unfurling and tell myself, that's a dull one but then when it opens, I just fall in love with the shade of pink. In fact I am kinda obsessed with it. I also love the bright orange lilac tipped beards. They just blend so well with this pink shade. I am not sure how you describe the color except that is a different pink than any I have seen.


TB Granderilla - Crazy about this Iris too. This Iris is very tall and a very strong grower and has proved itself two years in a row. But I think it is the form I love the most.


TB Alice Goodman - If you like lace and fluff, this is an iris for you. I do like those things A lot...and I like this Iris ALOT.


TB Iris Above The Fray - This has a good black shade in parts of the Falls though my pictures are failing to capture it but some pictures posted in the database by others are capturing it.