Welcome to the iris forum McMIrisLover. You grow some lovely irises.

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I do see a few Dykes medals in my iris garden:

Babbling Brook
Celebration Song
Drama Queen
Dusky Challenger
Edith Wolford
Florentine Silk
Golden Panther
Honky Tonk Blues
Shipshape
Thornbird
Titan's Glory
Victoria Falls

And I do have Orinoco Flow, BB (British Dykes)

Of all of those, only one is struggling, Florentine Silk


There are tiny green buds, so maybe there is hope.

And thanks to Rob and Barbara for your contributions to this list.

F. Silk must be a weak plant. I lost the ones in the ground and an extra that was in a pot.

I do grow these Dykes.

Celebration Song
Drama Queen previous and reordered
Dusky Challenger
Edith Wolford
Florentine Silk
Golden Panther
Honky Tonk Blues
Thornbird
That's All Folks
Florentine Silk previous
Queen's Circle
Stairway to Heaven
Mesmerized


Here is a link to the Dykes winners. I do have one friend that grows them all!
http://www.historiciris.org/ar...

McMIrisLover

The only Dykes medal winner I have is Yaquina Blue. Feeling like this is a poor effort I decided to check if I have any Australian Dykes medal winners and found that I have none of them.

Florentine Silk is a strong grower here.

I am hoping that mine will recover.

I have several. Some I didn't know were Dykes winners.

I have:
Golden Panther 2009
Splashacata 2005
Mesmerizer 2002
Stairway to Heaven 2000
Conjuration 1998
Thornbird 1997 - I have a feeling this may end up being my favourite iris. I hear it is nigh indestructible and blooms prolifically.
Silverado 1994
Edith Wolford 1993
Beverly Sills 1985

And possibly:
Cherie 1951
Wabash 1940

Monty you have quite an impressive collection for starting out this year!

I hope that your Edith Wolford recovers. I hope that mine does as well. Maybe we will get some blooms on them next year.

I doubt Edith will bloom for me next year, the rhizome is still so tiny. Maybe an inch or two max width and length. I'm giving her at least another year to bloom - I'm just glad to see she recovered from her failed transplant turned rot endeavor. The other Edith Wolford rhizome was completely disintegrated.

She was a purchase from Lowe's, and EW was blooming on purchase, but for three years afterward, never rebloomed so much as springbloomed again. I thought transplanting would be a fix, but me being forgetful and busy, it wasn't till July that I found her again, and that's when she was in the almost-gone state.

Pretty much every day since I got my first new plantling from Winterberry, I've been going out nearly every day multiple times to check how my irises are doing.

I'm not a big fan of collecting Top Medal Winners (either irises or daylilies) just because of the Top Medal, but I do have some.

Titan's Glory 1988 Really nice purple
Jesse's Song 1990 Bought it at our show/sale last spring (it was on the Head Table)
Edith Wolford 1993 Unless I have a second pot of this somewhere, I may have lost it (but that's okay)
Silverado 1994 Maybe... have not seen it bloom
Conjuration 1998 Maybe... have not seen it bloom (and that nursery is prone to mistakes)
Mesmerizer 2002 Space-Ager and one of the few irises here which can hold its own against 'That's All Folks'
Queen's Circle 2007 Had it, lost it, Petruske replaced it, waiting to see it in bloom again
Paul Black 2010 WONDERFUL carnation-like fragrance and contrasting red-orange beard!
That's All Folks 2013 I still need to find an in-ground spot for this one, where it won't overpower everything else
Haunted Heart 2018 I'm not sure I like it; maybe I'll like it better when/if it's in the ground?

Most of the 18 Dykes' that I grow are already mentioned, but I noticed that 7 of them have been hybridized by Keith Keppel !

2004 Dykes winner

Dykes 2011

Dykes 2012

Dykes 2015

Dykes 2018

Dykes 2017

Dykes 2006

(I may have missed one. I think he has 8)

Found it! Babbling Brook - Dykes winner 1972!!!

I don't have it.

Anyone who just really finds they don't like Haunted Heart may send it to me. And feel free to send the 3 2018 Wister medal winners to keep it company. (Just trying to provide a safe haven for these poor unloved iris..... ).

...Same for me....because Haunted Heart is lovely!

I am updating my list that I posted this Spring. I added

GYPSY LORD and MORTMARTRE! Hoping they bloom this coming May.


Leslie, instead of a rescue for cats and dogs you can do iris!!

I do see a few Dykes medals in my iris garden:

Babbling Brook

Celebration Song

Drama Queen

Dusky Challenger

Edith Wolford

Florentine Silk

Golden Panther

Honky Tonk Blues

Shipshape

Thornbird

Titan's Glory

Victoria Falls

And I do have Orinoco Flow, BB (British Dykes)

And thanks to Rob and Barbara for your contributions to this list.

A few additions to the list this year:

Haunted Heart

Mary Frances

Mesmerizer

Yaquina Blue

A FEW? Why, you have a lot a lot. Most I've seen in this thread, if I recall correctly. You have 17!

I need to replace DRAMA QUEEN, I had a nice clump and then gave some away and moved it to a different area. Somehow I lost it The new area was between daylilies and I found out that when I watered them I was losing some of my iris to rot.