Dirt's NOID is pretty, Laurie. Zaa Zaa Zing

Few more....my iris stalks yet to unfurl are very few now, so my season is ending.

TB Ink Patterns


BB Autumn Ivory had a second stalk on a different clump open


NOID, Bronze Bell maybe.


Good ol' Edith Wolford showed up late this year.

Ping the Duck (L Burton) is one of Mom's

Cute!

Took a walk around and found a few new blooms.
Two Thumbs Up (Thank you Tom @tveguy3

Teagan (Thank you to a special friend)

What A Gain (Thank you Susan)

Clumps of TTU and Teagan side by side

Awww---Ping the Duck. That brings back memories. Cute little iris! Please add to the database, Lucy--there's only 1 picture!

Teagan--one of my favorites. Fragrant, too.

Lots of TBs blooming now. I don't have time to look
up the names right now.

IrisLily, Is the iris in that last photograph Gypsy Romance?

It could be. We never did get a positive confirmation. There are several that look very similar.

I don't post on the iris forum often, mostly because I lost so many iris to gophers over the years, it just makes me so sad. I appreciate each and every bloom I do get now.
First ones started a couple of weeks ago
Safari Sunset, a gift from Bonnie, sad she no longer posts here.

And my 2 favorites:
Pretty Plum Whiskers



Mescalero Chief



And the two below, no idea what they are, certainly something I would have ordered but doesn't match anything from my current list nor my gopher casually list (I had to make that category in case something miraculously survived)

Calif_Sue said:

I suspect this "NOID may be Hilow or Barbary Coast, both of which have a more pronounced blue blaze than does Safari Sunset, though it, too, has a small one.

See these, which you have posted photos of in the past:

Sue, it's great to see you in the iris forum. I wish you could solve that gopher problem. I would cry if I had to give up so many irises!

Names from previous post: Piccadilly Circus, Millennium Falcon, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Luminate, Infrared, Immortality, Kinkajou Shrew, Bold Splash?, Dusky Challenger, Company Of One, and Swingtown.
The one I think is Bold Splash is from looking up the picture on Sutton's website. I was supposed to get the IB Break It Up, but received this instead. I already emailed them.(again!)
Sorry about the broken fence and the weeds! There seems to be a wind tunnel through that area now. The TBs really don't have that bad of a form. It is the wind that constantly blows through that garden.

Thanks @DaisyDo, it does seem to look closer to Hilow but I've never ordered that one, the name doesn't even sound familiar, even though I added photos. Also Hilow seems to have fat gold beards, mine are small and paler.
If you click on both Hilow and Barbary Coast photos I added, you see that each caption attributes it to a different vendor. I have added thousands of vendor images with their permission.
Safari Sunset is a pale copper, not red like this one.
This unknown iris also seems to be on the smaller side of an average TB.

BlueRidgeGardener23 said: Sue, it's great to see you in the iris forum. I wish you could solve that gopher problem. I would cry if I had to give up so many irises!

Thanks Monty.
I wish I had a solution to these pocket gophers too, when I moved here in 2011, I had no idea it was this bad. The first 2 years my iris clumps grew big and it was wonderful. Then one day I heard crunching sounds, found a gopher actively chewing on a rhizome and the plant leaves slowing sinking underground. It was all downhill from there. Every spring when they are most active I set traps, I catch 8-10 on a good year but it never makes a difference. They have extensive tunnel systems and when one dies (they live average 3 years) another eventually takes it's place. I did catch one last week that had been making big mounds all over the place, biggest one I have ever caught. One down.

This pretty light blue one popped open today.


Another Pumpkin Cheesecake.


Dusky Challenger is still one of my favorites despite its popularity.


Suttons did confirm this is Bold Splash. They are supposed to send me Break It Up in August.

Endora. Name reminds of the mother on Bewitched.


Probably the only year I will see this because it will likely bloom out.


First rose of the year has opened.

Moonlit Water



A blue NOID (any ideas? was thinking perhaps babbling brook)



Concertina



Wintry Sky



Discovered Treasure


And here's the yellow iris behind hidden treasure in that picture...believe it to be 'Love the Sun'



Have a lot more blooming too, but I'll share these for now! Everyone's season is looking beautiful!!

SDB Raspberry Jam bloomed today.


I am going to try to transplant my SDB's to different areas. These are mainly the ones in the present SDB Bed. I will put TB Iris in this bed in the future hopefully.

I sincerely sympathize with your gopher problems, Sue! That's why most of my irises are in pots.

More irises are blooming today, but I only took pics of a few. Not pictured include MUSICALITY (bad angle), BLACK LIPSTICK, and BYE BYE BLUES. (I am pleased to report that I think I now have that and BUSY BEING BLUE separated out. )

First up, 2nd day of the maiden bloom on PRETTY EYES (I'm not too sure about that beard color...):



This is OCEAN LINER....Bad angle on that pot too; this was the lowest bloom and I'm not sure the color is quite right:



I had DH take this image of IRRESISTIBLE CHARM for me (which I had to heavily crop and clean up):



Last but not least, this is supposedly SERGEY (which I divided late last summer) but the color seems off :

So many beautiful irises! Makes me sad my season is ending. All but two varieties are opened up.

The NOID iris I got from a local vendor opened up yesterday, but today was the first day I snapped pics.


Any ideas?

I saw Bye Bye Blues at our show last Sunday. It is quite a dramatic iris. Irresistible Charm is really lovely - mine seems to be sulking this year.