All by himself???? That's astounding.

I agree! Backbreaking amount of work. Wow.

Maybe they have the dogs trained to plant them! I could always rent them some chickens.

The huskies work on eliminating the gophers which must be a help. ☺

Brad, does T. Johnson use a tobacco planter?

Here is another wonderful set of seedlings from those guys really enjoyed a lot of these they have some fun new patterns and colors that are popping up in there beds, I Loved the new color breaks in the Plicata's, and the Beards on some of these other ones keeping getting bigger and Louder with new colors coming along, also we really liked the blue bearded Pinks they give the flowers a whole different look in bloom I also noticed that they are starting to see Lines on the falls of Blue's which gives them a different look there is a lot to look forward to in the future from Mid America

very nice!

I want theeeeeeeeese!

ARUBA1334 said:

Rob... No he plants them by hand the only place I know that uses Machinery to plant them is Schreiner's and with 200 acres to move and plant back every year they need it

Debra.. LOL I do too and a lot more

All by hand! I don't see how that's possible in that short of time. If we order enough from him, does he come along with the box to help us plant them?

Love them all, but I love these the most!

ARUBA1334 said:

They sure aren't going to run out of new intros, that's for sure. Great bunch.

The future is very exciting!! I'm in love with the Iris in picture 3 -- what a gorgeous white and red combination!!!

Perhaps it is just me but I think there is a resurgence in iris interest in the general gardening population. Perhaps it is because of the wide diversity in color and form but it seems as if more gardeners are showing real interest in buying and growing irises than in the past 20 or so years.

I am in love with that red!

Celia, is the red with the white lines around the beard the one you're talking about? That one really catches my eye too!

Yes, Neal. That one and the red self. Both had me going back to look multiple times.

FWIW -- MidAmerica has one that looks like that called Dare Me -- and it's for sale.

UndertheSun said:All by hand! I don't see how that's possible in that short of time. If we order enough from him, does he come along with the box to help us plant them?

I really couldn't have said it better!!! Rob!

Finally getting some time to update this thread again and wanted to show a couple more clump pictures of Seedlings from Mid America and some of the 1st year bloom seedling patches one of the things I enjoyed most was looking at these 1st year patches blooming it's amazing How much color & pattern difference you can get out of a cross so thought I would share a few
This is what I am looking forward to the most when I visit Oregon is the new seedlings always fun to see the brand new ones as they are just opening up.








Some more of there Outstanding Tree's, Conifer's and Hosta Collection if you are looking for Ideas for a home garden design this is the place to see in Salem. Really a world class collection of plants to see.







The Convention Beds Looked great but this year they should be even better because they will be established 2 year plants excited to see them again. Tom had some pictures online last week showing the new growth in these beds from the looks of it the whole west coast is ahead of Schedule let's hope they have a cold snap to slow them down some for the convention