I look forward to seeing them too Virginia

Good luck!

And good luck in your Iris adventure. We'll be looking for pictures next spring.

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to the iris forum!

I will add my welcome to you Virginia.

now someone need to start a thread 'top ten favorite rebloomers and why'.

For me, It's

Absolute Treasure


Queen's Circle


Silverado


Dusky Challenger


Beverly Sills


Vanity


Celebration Song


Pacific Fire (open this photo to see it better)


Coral Chalice


Golden Panther


Mary Frances


Bubbling Over (at least that's what I think mine is. Picture is from my garden)


Ooh, can I have a 13th?
Bluebird of Happiness:

Excellent choices, Daisy.

Thanks, Andrea.

I'm curious to know what your dozen would be, Andrea. And feel free to repeat me or anyone elses favorites in this thread. Arturo can gain a sense of consensus from repetitions, after all.

OK. First of all, I heartily agree with Daisy that Absolute Treasure, Queen's Circle, Celebration Song, Golden Panther, and Pacific Fire are gorgeous irises. I grow them in California, a very different environment from Daisy in Maryland, and they grow vigorously and perform beautifully here as well.

I want to point out twelve more fantastic varieties. These are varieties I would take with me if I had to move.

First, two top performing irises that fill me with joy every year:

Tend My Heart (Blyth 2016)



This iris is one of the first to bloom for me and blooms for a very long time. I just love it.

My Lady's Manor (Remare 2013)



Maybe similar to Tend My Heart, but blooms much later in the season. Also blooms for a long time.

Fluent Mandarin (Blyth 2007)



This photo doesn't show the veining in the standards, which is beautiful, but the color of the falls is accurate.
This is another early blooming iris, very vigorous and floriferous.

Global Crossing (Van Liere 2011)



I am very partial to neglectas and this is the best I have found so far.

Merchant Marine (Keppel 2007)

Andrea, 'Global Crossing' and 'My Ladys Manor' are very pretty.

I'm adding them to my list for this fall's plant purchases.

OK, those are the first five.

Next are three prize winners that totally deserve their acclaim and I would not do without.

Daughter of Stars (Spoon 2001)



I cannot praise this iris highly enough. It started blooming last November 2020 and didn't stop for months.

Beauty Becomes Her (Black 2010)



A ferocious grower. I had to divide it after two years.

Paul Black (Johnson 2002)



Daring Deception



Here's one that is not a big-time prize winner, but that I really like and has performed really well for years.

Stop the Traffic (Blyth 2007)



And you've got to have a purple iris, right? I have a hard time choosing between these two siblings:

Royalty Remembered (Keppel 2017)



Adriatic Noble (Keppel 2017)



Both are early bloomers, have heavy substance, and bloom for a long time. Royalty Remembered doesn't sprawl as much as Adriatic Noble does and is theoretically a rebloomer. I kind of like that Royalty Remembered grows in a neater clump, but they are both fantastic.

Here's my favorite iris of 2021:

Fashion Diva (Johnson 2009)

SonoveShakespeare said:Andrea, 'Global Crossing' and 'My Ladys Manor' are very pretty.

I'm adding them to my list for this fall's plant purchases.

I think you'll really like them!

Andrea, Global Crossing is on my wish list, And I have and love both Royalty Remembered and Paul Black.

Love the nice clean foliage on your plants.

Thanks! Leaf spot is a function of rainfall and we've hardly gotten any rain this winter and spring. In rainy years my foliage doesn't look so good.

Andrea, you picture of Royalty Remembered shows what a gorgeous thing it is!

Andrea, I like all the purple ones.

However, out of them all, 'Daughter of Stars' would be my # 1 choice.

It just blooms and blooms.

I just found this. First I want to say bulb catalogs rarely send what they advertise especially Brecks. I lost a garden of thousands to a divorce for 6 years she tried to kill them poison and weeds chest high. My granddaughter fell in love with the pretty Flowers so in order to get rid of them I was invited to take them. 273 I got back. This list is hard to kill. Sorry no order to it. I'm also tech challenged with little desire to aquire the skills so no photos
Ghost train
Midnight oil
Mystic lover
Mauna loa Fires
Miah jane
Chief John jolly
Blue fin
Total recall
Owyhee desert
April jewel
Golden panther
Walking on air
Hubble space telescope
Mastery
Batman vibrations
Egyptian
Bye bye blues
Parkridge challenger
First interstate
Stardock
Concertina
conjuration
Patina
Sorry it's more than 10 and all off the top of my head I could go on but I wont