Debra, love your historics. There's something really beautiful in their simplicity, and blue and yellow is a classic colour combination.

Thank you, Mika.

Debra, They are nice. I love historic but I also like some of the newer ones also. I will let you know in a day or two. Im setting up my budget ( ) now for trades and purchases this year.

Wow, Rob, I've never really been a blue fan, but "City Lights" is beautiful!

Darcy, I can send you some when it recovers. It also has a good strong aroma to it. When I walked through my beds last spring, the scent stopped me in my tracks and I had to smell all the irises until I found out where it was coming from.

How lovely to buy a house & get irises.

If I ever move I guess the new owners are going to have to love iris.....

Leslie you will just have to move the irises with ya.

That will be a whole lot of pots. A moving van just for iris!

Can't leave the kids behind.

I was thinking of just leaving the "extras" as all the divisions would be a whole lot of iris to take anywhere. Especially if I keep buying more!

Mary Ann, here is a close-up of the purple.

Celia, it's very pretty!

Thaaaatttt's it!!!

That's a beautiful purple, Celia -- nothing like my NOID purple, if I'm thinking of the right one. (I have two NOID purples). That one has enough ruffles that it can't be TOO old..................

I've lost track of the train of thought Deb -- "thaaaatttt's it" what?

It's the one I sent her, I believe.

Ahhh -- got it! Thanks Celia!

Lestv said:If I ever move I guess the new owners are going to have to love iris.....

Nothing will be left behind if I move...maybe a original noID clump

It would not be physically possible for me to move all of my Irises. And I don't ever expect to have as much land as I do now. So if I ever moved (which I do NOT plan to do) I would have to pick and choose which Irises would go with me.

And that's a very good reason NOT to move, right??