Yes, be patient Meantime you can look at some that I uploaded to the scleroderma forum at https://www.inspire.com/DaisyD... . Warning, I do have scleroderma, and some of the photos illustrate the medical stuff I am going through. But other photos ilustrate my garden, and travels. A few, like the hibiscus, and waterplant were things I saw at Longwood Gardens. Read the captions and you'll see which ones were taken in my own garden. These were mostly taken a few years back, before the groundhogs became a huge problem. Since then, because the blackeyed susans were so attractive to the groundhogs, I have taken them out and have been planting more iris.

One of the big things about scleroderma is fatigue. So I don't get as much done as I would like to.

DaisyDo said:Yes, be patient
One of the big things about "old age" is fatigue. So I don't get as much done as I would like to.

LOL That, too. I suffer from old age fatigue on top of the scleroderma fatigue.

As my grandmother, who wrote gardening articles for Horticulture Magazine, and the garden column for the Kansas City Star complained, "I'm a young mind, trapped in an old body."

Gardening is in my genes.

DaisyDo said:LOL That, too!

As my grandmother, who used to say, "I'm a young mind, trapped in an old body."

Gardening is in my genes.

Me too!

Sorry to hear about your health problems, DaisyDoo, but so happy to know that gardening helps you to cope with such a tragic illness. Wishing you many more years of enjoyable gardening inspite of the constant fatigue, which as you mentioned is quite different from old age fatigue. I will be sure to check out your link after dinner and patiently await your others.

caitlinsgarden said: As I dig buckets of rotted rhizomes, I realize that I have lots of irises that are still doing well. In fact, most of these irises have done well for years so I am dividing and planting these everywhere, always hoping to add some new beauties to the cast of old faithfuls.
What can you count on over the years in your garden? I realize this will be different in various climates.
So far these have bloomed:
Lovesick Blues sdb
Low Ho Silver
Ritz sdb
Mini Purple Noid sdb
Florentina
I. Pallida
I. Variegata
Delirium
Concertina

Several years after losing most of my fancy TB irises to borers and digging them out I find that I still have a few that continue to thrive. The list above (minus Florentina and Concertina and Variegata.) To which I would add Flavascens which has grown profusely for at least the last 50 years as a very dependable variety. And also Thornbird is hanging in there as is Superstition.

Bubbling Over.

To start with in about 1990, I planted Dusky Challenger, Skating Party, Jesse's Song, Silverado, and received Bubbling Over as a bonus. Then starting in about 2000, I was too ill to garden for about 15 years. The iris were all totally neglected, and I lost every one of them except Bubbling Over, which continued to multiply into a large clump. I still have it. I started gardening again in about 2016, and have added many award-winning iris to my garden since then. But Bubbling Over has proven its worth against all those medalists.

Carol @csandt , thank you for the acorn!

My thrivers:

Mesmerizer
Aaron's Dream
Disguise
Beauty Becomes Her
Over Alaska
Stairway to Heaven
Role Model
Barbara My Love

Afternoon Delight has bloomed and increased every year since 2018.

Harvest of Memories has been in my garden for many years. It never fails to bloom, and I get occasional rebloom from it as well. (In this picture I had to cut it down, as there was a rainstorm.)

Immortality has been in my garden for many years. It just hasn't bloomed every single year and seldom reblooms, despite its name. (But it IS long-lived!)

Beautiful! Of course you don't have borers that far west.

Some of the thrives here in East Tn:
Victoria's Falls - hands down my best. I thin it every few years, have so many that I just stuck them in the former garden and they were beautiful there too, weeds and all!

My Lady's Manor just keeps getting better each year, long blooming beautiful clump.



And Again and Again won't go away no matter how much I mistreat it



Good ole Helen Collingwood seems happy since I stole her from an abandoned home site



And finally William A Setchell was lost by our creek for years, but survived the floods and neglect and still going strong.

I have My Lady's Manor, too, and agree that it is a winner - reliable, floriferous, with heavy substance - I just love it.

I would like to suggest Clarence as a dependable thriver and a lovely thing it is! It blooms for me every year in 4b, poor soil.

Perused the Chapman Iris site in Ontario (4b), writing down the irises that particularly mentioned cold hardiness and/or reliable rebloom:
(T.B.'s)
ERAMOSA PEACH SORBET
ERAMOSA RIDGE
RAGTIME SINGER
ERAMOSA BLUSHING BRIDE
YUKON LIL
(B.B.'s)
ERAMOSA CELEBRATION
(I.B.'S)
ARTIC FANCY
ERAMOSA BRASS
ERAMOSA STONE WASHED
ETERNAL SUMMER
RETURNING SUMMER
(M.T.B.'s)
JUST DOLLY
(Spieces Iris, bearded)
ETERNAL SUMMER
I. APHYLLA
(S.D.'s)
BLUEBERRY TART
FOREVER BLUE
HEATHER CARPET
STRIPE IT UP
SULU-ST

I've tried in the past couple of years to order from Chuck Chapman, but he has hit many roadblocks recently in trying to ship to the US. I'll be trying again, though, since he has some that I can't find in the states. I recognize some in your list above that are popular and readily available.