Pam

Another nice group of pics!

Snork said:I was very happy with the percentage of bloom that I got from rhizomes that had been planted late in the previous fall. Several of the non blooming two year old plantings put on a good show.

Oh Jamaica


Iconic


Undercurrent


Ask A Lady

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Ask a Lady')
• Uploaded by Snork

Hotel Rwanda
This faded a little after opening.

• Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Hotel Rwanda')
• Uploaded by Snork

I'll try to put a few more up later. Taking a break between barns. Have to take a horse to a show now.....

If you divide any of these please keep me in mind. I have Ask a Lady but none of the others and of course they are all beautiful!

Undercurrent looks WONDERFUL. The rest look nice too except for the "Hotel". That one did not elevate my BP at all. I guess they all can't be winners!

Wow, and you love pastels Greg!

Pam - Iconic is to die for! Fabulous picture. Ask a Lady bloomed for me this year too. What a beauty!

Misawa77 said:Undercurrent looks WONDERFUL. The rest look nice too except for the "Hotel". That one did not elevate my BP at all. I guess they all can't be winners!

That's funny Greg, cause that is how I felt about Undercurrent. Seemed kind of Blah to me. The bloom faded really quickly. To its credit, it was really hot when it bloomed.

I had no expectations on Hotel Rwanda, as I bought it on a whim... In person it is much nicer than the picture and has an incredible amount of diamond dusting.

Good thing iris come in so many colors! Something for everyone!

Thanks Leslie! I love the dark reds. And ruffles just make them that much better!

It took three years for me to get a bloom on Ask a Lady. First plant died and this one replaced it, but didn't bloom the first year. It was worth the wait!

Love the diamond dusting.

I think that the idea that a lot of irises look better in real life than in pictures says a lot. Makes this crazy collecting VERY worth it!😀

Down to one last shriveled blossom in the entire hillside garden....

However, I have all the summer bedding plants done in all the little edge gardens around the house and just finished the last of the mulching of the front garden this afternoon. We may be missing Iris, but there are lots of other colorful things just getting started.

A few more Iris pictures...

Jamaica Me Crazy


Oh Jamaica
Sorry - posted this one previously....but it fit the category


Caribbean Dream


Mexican Holiday


Dinner at a local Mexican restaurant has sent me off on a tangent.....

Good tangent, Pam.

Some of the last new to me blooms of the season

Bubble Bubble
This was a bloom from a very late fall planting - wasn't expecting to see it this year!


A really nice NOID
Definitely not Bewilderbeast, but I'll keep it!


Maria Malibran
This was given out at our club sale two years ago and finally bloomed-
what a beauty!!!


Nearing the end.....

I just did some checking and found another batch of late bloomers, so I guess I will torture you with a couple more groups.

These were all new plantings and first year blooms or stuff that didn't bloom from plantings of two years ago.

Made You Look
Love the lines!


Carry On
Bright and lively!


Border Skirmish
Hot stuff while it lasted...the weather wiped it out before it could stage a counter offensive....


Glitterati
Back after being missing in action for a year or two.


Brilliant Idea
This produced a wild chimera which is posted over on that thread


Passion Play
From last year's PNW sale

All of them are fantastic Pam! Lovely.

My "Border Skirmish" is doing very poorly. It has not flourished at all (so it is losing the fight!)

My "Brilliant Idea" did bloom on a very stunted stalk. Disappointing.

I have two "Maria Malibran"s and they both are doing crappy. Dang.