That looks like some good soup on your avitar Debra!

Thank you, Tom, it was.

MileHighGardner said:
Our Data bases are sometimes woefully inadequate. I've check everything I could find. I thought it looked like the famous Chivalry but there's no mention of it reblooming either.

@MileHighgardener and everyone, don't know if you knew how to search through the listed rebloomers in the database. Go to the iris database, click on 'Search by characteristics (height, bloom color, etc)', then under the Bloom Season section, check the Rebloom, scroll down and hit 'Search'.
It will list all those registered as rebloomers but also have others that have been reported to rebloom by growers. I am still working through the list on that Reblooming Iris Society site to make sure we at least have their list checked off here.

Several different hybridizers, Jan." Royal" iris would be good idea for a themed garden! Hmmm ! Ahwanee princess, you say ?! I may have to trade you out of a chunk of that one, Bonnie !! She'd fit right well in my Indian bed !

Absolutely, Arlyn! She will be happy to join the tribe. smiles

The hybridizer of Earl of Essex & Lady Essex was Canadian.

Is it just my imagination, or do the Queens and Princesses outnumber the Kings and Princes?

Arlyn, would a Gypsy Lord count?

Certainly, as would Gypsy Baron, Gypsy Queen, and Queen of May ! As to the "gender issue', I tend to think of flowers the same way I do about ships.....mostly female. Not sure if others do as well, but if so, that could explain the
more queens than kings" thing . Now just don't ask me WHY I think of flowers and ships as
feminine !!!!

Me too, Arlyn, and I remember when hurricanes carried all ladies names.

Well, have you ever heard of a Himacane?

Too funny, Arlyn!

The top bloom of Barn Dance opened but it was falling off.
In the sun


In the shade


Indoors


There are two more buds of significance on the stalk. I don't know if they will get a chance to mature or not. I love the colors on this iris. The fall bloom is always smaller than the spring bloom.

Here's the last of my re-bloomers.
I don't remember its name - planted several years ago.
Could be a median - about 30" tall.

Nice deep purple with a white beard!