Lestv said:The native species Yellow Flag grows everywhere there is a pond, but they have been labeled a nuisance plant now.

Just for clarity, Yellow Flag (Iris pseudacorus) is not native to North America. It has done an excellent job of pushing native irises like Iris virginica and Iris fulva, among other native species, out of their natural habitat. Which is pretty much the definition of an invasive or nuisance plant.

Thank you Kent.

I stand corrected.

The great thing about this site is you always learn something new. Now the challenge is remembering what I have newly learned.

I'm a little late on this one, but finally had time to go through pictures from the spring.

All Ruffled Up (sdb)


Lemon Twist (sdb)


Date With Destiny (Spec-X)


Beauty Becomes Her


Ink Patterns, with its usual blizzard of flowers


Jordan's Joy


Lemon Cloud, with Face Of An Angel to the right and I Must Have It behind and left. I like individual flowers of Alpine Harmony better, but it can't match Lemon Cloud in terms of clump effect.


Magnificent Masterpiece


Picture Book


And, finally, Wintry Sky, which always puts on a spectacular show here.

...Arlyn

Gorgeous! Wintry Sky is really beautiful.

Wow Kent -- amazing clump shots!!! Thank you for sharing them!

Lovely Kent........some of my favorites.

Beautiful!

Holy ....

That got the juices flowing again! So beautiful!

Some very nice clump shots, Kent, Wintry Sky is one nice iris. It does well here too.

Beautiful, I love clump shots and you have some gorgeous ones there.

Holy moly. Nice clumps. Ink Patterns always grows that many? Wow. Love Date With Destiny and Wintry Sky.

It does here. And, if it can bloom like that here, it ought to be able to do it most places as our climate is not exactly ideal for irises. It won the Wister Medal last year so I'd imagine it has put on a show like at some recent AIS conventions as well.

Just beautiful!

What is the iris behind Beauty Becomes Her with the pinkish cream standards and violet/purple falls? Very pretty.

It is a nice one. Not the strongest grower here, but not bad by any means.

Thanks! Very pretty.

Is anyone willing to share their method of "how to plant your irises to form beautiful clumps"? I've seen the "triangle" and plant "back-to-back" methods, but what do you do?