Siberians do not do well here, unless they are in a drainless container. Maybe when I retire to a "patio garden" when I am older, I can plant some in large tubs or have a nice water garden. We are dry all summer here.

I almost started asking people, "do you go on garden.org?" but then I thought they might think I was strange. Lol I overthink everything. I had a bright top on It is coral pink at top and shaded to purple on the bottom. I almost asked d about signing up but then I was thinking I already wrote one check, I can probably sign up online. It was an hour ride for me but not too bad. I used to work not too far in Chelmsford and I knew some people from Acton and Maynard so I am familiar with that area.

irisarian said:You can't do better than Marty & Jan for Siberians. jpflower.com. It is a bit early to dig Siberians which is why so few at the sale. They of course hybridize themselves 7 learned from the late Currier McEwen & Bea Warburton. I was sitting in my baseball cap near the standard dwarfs & I wish we had met.

I am racking my brain trying to remember the face behind the baseball cap but I saw so many faces I just can't lol.

evelyninthegarden said:Siberians do not do well here, unless they are in a drainless container. Maybe when I retire to a "patio garden" when I am older, I can plant some in large tubs or have a nice water garden. We are dry all summer here.

You are much warmer than me but we had a drought last year and I didn't give them any water and they survived no problem. I think there are quite a few Iris listed as needing moist soil that can be grown with less (although not ideal). I have a Japanese Iris that I've had for years. I really need to divide it, it didn't bloom this year but the clump is huge. Last year when we had almost no rain all summer, the one time it rained a little I scratched the top of the soil and it was bone dry. The water just puddles up on top it is like watching oil trying to mix with water.

I think Aitken's has a nice, but smaller, collection of sibs as well. I am still testing the waters with sibs with some I got from Neal. If they continue to thrive I definitely want to add some more. Dying to try spuria as well when I have time and room.

Heck if I waited until I had time and room I'd never get anything.

evelyninthegarden said:

This "little" book has over 1000 pages, much to my amazement! (That is on the Kindle.) On the laptop it is 274 pages. Sometimes it is easier to read on the laptop.

this is the one I was referring to.....I picked up my copy on Amazon, quite a few years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1164174215/
14&keywords=walter+stager

his home is still there...but, alas....none of his gardens seems to have survived.

crowrita1 said:

this is the one I was referring to.....I picked up my copy on Amazon, quite a few years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1164174215/
14&keywords=walter+stager

his home is still there...but, alas....none of his gardens seems to have survived.

Arlyn ~ I am curious. Is it a good copy? I once purchased a fax copy of a book by Jane Loudon, and it was mostly unreadable. Some pages were good and some not.

The Kindle copy was entitled, "Tall bearded Iris (fleur-de-lis ) A Flower of Song"

After seeing Liz's order from Mid-America I went on their site--bad idea. 40 irises later I put in my order but got an error instead of a confirmation. Irritating but I went back to the site and started over...then all of the original ones showed back up in my cart. No problem, made it easy to just check out again, successfully this time. Didn't think about it again until I checked my email a bit later and saw 2 RECEIPTS FOR ORDERS! Oops! Wrote a quick email asking that the 1st be cancelled, both together would've been over $700 in rhizomes!!!! Luckily I just got another email from them saying no problem, cancelling the 1st one and the payment didn't go through because of the initial error anyway.....The perils of on-line iris shopping after a 12 hour shift....

40 is a nice number!
...80 is better, but I guess you would want them to be different ones?

Now what did you order??

I got Adventurous, Air of Mystery, Bright on Top, Brilliant Disguise, Colourable, Dancing Ghost, Fancy Dog, Fancy Ideas, Grandstand, High Octane, Merry Amigo, Prague, Rarer Than Rubies, Repertoire, Samba Queen, Sordid Lives, Stir It Up, Sweet Svengali, Wonders Never Cease, Glitzorama, Devil's Delight, Fanciful Whimsy, Man's Best Friend, Canine Caper, Doxie Doodles, Mesa Sunrise, Pawn, Peppito, Alas, Brash and Bold, Egyptian Queen, Galaxina, Heart of Hearts, Magic Masquerade, Crack Me Up and Cross Dresser. Will have 3 bonuses to make 40 but the only one that showed available was A New Beginning, hopefully I'll get one and maybe something else for the other 2.

Yay!!! Awesome order!!!

and of course we're going to need to see bloom pictures next spring.

Don't worry Liz, with an order like that there will be some other gift irises!

I put a last minute order in with Chapman Iris. I can't resist the little ones!

Tan Lines http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Pole Dancer http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Blueberry Flambe http://wiki.irises.org/Ib/IbBl...
Urban Myth http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Toffee Time http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Fudge Icing http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Naked Grape http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Ruby Passion http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Spring Gnome http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Yellow Hornet http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Acid Test http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...
Sometimes http://wiki.irises.org/Sdb/Sdb...

wow liz and liz! maybe lizinelizabeth is playing catch-up? great looking forward to your pictures (both) next spring!

I wasn't familiar with Chuck Chapman iris until now. I love the stripes on his SDBs, I love Spring Gnome and I like the way his website has photos of future introductions . Great order Liz.

Wonderful, Liz! And I like that you sneaked in a couple of lovely Blyths...

Those are not frequently grown around here, Liz. They are gorgeous ones.