Oh I know. I am not complaining by any means. I rearranged the list, ordered the 20 oldest cultivars and am hoping for the best. I will not be disappointed with anything I receive. The way I look at it I will be helping keep HIPS alive, I will be getting all historic irises, no matter the cultivar I receive and I will be a little further along on my collection.
The only negative is maybe I should not have ordered so many. I have outstanding orders from other places and I really can't quite remember how many I have coming. So with 20 more on the way I may have over done it a bit.
I would really like to someday be a HIPS garden, we will see. That is a might lofty goal for a newby. I have only been "into" irises for 5 years now so I have a lot to learn and a long way to go. But I have figured out that the oldies is the way I want to go. I want to help insure they are kept alive and thriving and not lost forever.
I admire your passion for the oldies. Personally, they are my most favorite. They remind me of my Granny when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. 
, So far I've only had one "oops" from the rhisome sale( should have been Crimson King, but was really Drady), so I can't complain very much. I've had more than that from com. growers. It's easy to make a mistake, both on ID, and (,because the rascals run up and down the row at night, I think!) the clumps intermingling. I actually enjoy the process of "putting a name" to the NOIDs! I guess not everyone cares about names, and that's ok. Just enjoy them for their beauty! But "No-Names" seem to really bug me! Makes me feel good when the mystery is solved ....Arlyn 
although it's beards really are not dark enough either.
