Even more beautiful photos and suggestions, thank you!

I have a year to prepare next seasons shopping list. I have no idea how I'm going to narrow it down. ...

Rob, Just give up and start making beds. It's impossible to fight it.

Rob -- you really only have four months or so to prepare next year's shopping list. Most of the Iris houses open their doors for business in January -- and many Irises are sold out very quickly. So if there varieties that you specifically want, you'll need to get your order in early!!

Look at your list & visualize a color scheme for your garden. That is unless you just want the plants which you like☺. However height of the stem & complementary colors mean a lot.

I think I'll prepare some beds over the next two weekends.

What happens after that, I'm blaming mostly on this forum.

Thanks again.

We take full credit!

Definitely!

Well, Looks like we corrupted another one!... Arlyn

It was only a matter of time.......................(devil icon)

Wow, just looking at those photos made me write a wishlist on the spot! I'm a beginner, but from what I've so far put in my garden the best of them I'd recommend are:
Coppatonic
Stop Flirting
Thornbird
Louisa's Song
Amplified

Nice choices. Stop Flirting is a personnel favorite. Beautiful flower on a nice stem. Really photogenic.

"Hubble Space Telescope" TB 1991 Wright

Really Greg? Hubble Space Telescope out of all the Irises available? I'm baffled -- please tell me what I'm not seeing?

I work at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland on the ground system for the........................................................................................................


Yup; you guessed it: Hubble Space Telescope!

We have a book on it, but have not been able to look at the book as yet. More my DH's territory, although he is a biologist.

Ah! OK -- now I understand!!

I used to do a lot of color scheme planning, but finally realized that you really have to see the plant in bloom first to know what is blooming at the same time. My ideal is to grow everything together at first, then when it needs to be divided move it to a more planned bed. Well, that is my ideal...But actually I am slowly finding irises that go with my red orange poppies and bloom at the same time. Superstition is one of them.

'Superstition' is a great grower & so are many of its descendants.

wish i could pull the photo from facebook HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ( Barbara Wight, R. 1990). Sdlg. 86-7. TB, 29" (74 cm), EM. S. ivory white; style arms white; F. ivory white, purple lines and dotting halfway down; beards yellow, tipped purple, sometimes with thin purple and white horn; slight sweet fragrance. 80-130: (sdlg. x 'Dresden Gold') X 'Abu Zabad theres nothing not to loike about this iris the pedigree says it all for me

Try the iris encyclopedia from the AIS site. www. irises.org