I would LOVE one! Thanks so much Tom! And love hearing that it is a good grower, awesome!

Check War Chief as your NOID red, Tom. This is mine.

So many gorgeous irises! I'm sorry you are having such challenging weather right during your bloom. It you have extra Beacon Of Light I would love to be on the list for that one!

...and I have to say...I will never see Stan Coates the same way...just can't get past the images...poor Stan!

Zesting Lemons is very nice. I too would LOVE a Beacon of Light if available

Next time I'm looking at these photos in my garden so I can drool on to my plants.

If there is one left over, I would like to added to the Beacon list.

Here's one for Stan...

Great Balls of Fire

Stan Coates & Great Balls of Fire



They look good next to each other!

Well they were partners in crime, as it were!!!

Celia & Tom: I grew my Tom's Red NOid between Dynamite and War Chief. War Chief has PBF and the NOid does not. While the color was a good match, War Chief also had smoother falls, and less yellow spray at the hafts.

Neal, got you down, I'll go down the list as far as I have rhizomes, but not sure beyond two or 3, but I took your names down in the order that you asked.

For those of you who have no clue what the deal is about Stan Coats and Great Balls Of Fire, you will have to read the tread Amazing Don, Private Eye. It's good for a laugh or two.

Wow what a great show!!! Better than fireworks!
Sorry you had to fight the weather.

And the winner is ,.......
..... us.
thanks

Thanks.
Number 72 is Here Comes The Night. First time blooming for me.

Number 72 is Lydia Schimpf Another new one for me. I really like it so different, Tan standards and black falls.

Number 73 is Aggressively Forward.

Gosh.. too many to make comments on everything... Stan Coates is lovely, as are some of the luminatas... Cold Fusion is great.. Zesting Lemons is loads of fun.. All really beautiful Tom. You're in the thick of it now... Good job!

I have more then a 100 pictures I haven't posted yet. I think some of them will have to wait until next winter when we're all nutso iris deprived to post.
But here's a couple more.
Here's number 74, Barbara My Love

Number 75 is Champagne And Strawberries

Number 76 is Chuckles. It seems every time I get a nice bloom of this one it's raining or very windy, and I can't get pictures. Just have the one.

Number 77 is Brilliance. This one is always a bright spot in the garden.

Love your Brilliance! I find Orange is the toughest color to maintain. They must have a "weak" constitution. I have two that jump to mind; "Orange King" by schreiner and "Grobswitcher" by Sterling Innerst. Both are doing poorly in my yard and I have moved them both once with no apparent change. How does "Brilliance" do in Southern Wisconsin?

I went and looked at the database to see what other Orange "self"s I have and the total was 7. Really?

Oh James
Fiery Figure

both lost.

Firebreather has yet to bloom (after two seasons).

Avalon Sunset is the most reliable of the group (oh, yeah; it did not bloom this year!)

China Moon. Older and blooms ok, but is a slow increaser.

I guess I proved my point