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Feb 21, 2012 8:45 PM CST
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Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Birds The WITWIT Badge Garden Ideas: Level 1 Roses
Irises Daylilies Cat Lover Region: California Region: United States of America
I think you'll love HYSTERIA. Here's a picture I took of it when I was at Keith's. I really love those beards and stripes!

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Feb 21, 2012 9:17 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
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Gorgeous pictures everyone!

Aruba, your little girl just makes me smile, every time I see you post.
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Feb 22, 2012 11:34 AM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Betty that is a great picture I am hoping it does well here It really is a great color comination and very unique.

Polly Thank You for the Compliment on Joanna when they are in bloom she is always ready to help with the pictures Smiling Its funny because she wants to smell them all but some of are taller than she is so I followed her out one morning and watched her jumping to try to get a smell of some of them so I showed her you can pull them down just a little bit without snapping them off so heres a few pics of Joanna enjoying herself
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Feb 22, 2012 12:11 PM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Aruba, You have a real sweet heart there! The flowere are nice too!

I found a thumb drive that had some more pics on it. This is one of Blyth's that I had sent from Australia a few years back. It's "Pamper Me"
You can see that the underside of the falls is white.


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Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Feb 22, 2012 5:36 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
Seller of Garden Stuff Garden Ideas: Level 1
Always a smile on Joanna's face. Love it! How old is she?
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Feb 22, 2012 9:25 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Tom great pic the more I look at the blyth flowers the more I like them just wondering how was your luck ordering them from Australia did they settle right in and bloom for you from what I have read some people have no problems what so ever and others really struggle to grow some varieties you are the same zone as me just curious how they turned out.

Polly Joanna is 4 and loves to pose for the pictures with the Iris we are trying to get all three of our girls involved with growing them, they each get to pick out a few favorites from the catalogs this year and start there own little garden so hopefully as they get older they'll catch the Iris fever to. Smiling
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Feb 22, 2012 10:27 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Birds The WITWIT Badge Garden Ideas: Level 1 Roses
Irises Daylilies Cat Lover Region: California Region: United States of America
Aruba, I hope it's OK if I jump in here. One problem with ordering plants from Australia is that they have exactly the opposite seasons from us, so Barry Blyth sends them in February or March and suggests you pot them up until it's a good time to plant them in the ground for your zone, and sometimes the plants get confused and try to bloom over the summer, in which case he recommends you cut the stalks to prevent them from blooming to help the plant along. And then it's possibly another year after that before they acclimate and will bloom at the right time. (I think I have that right, don't I?) Another problem for me was the Phytosanitary and other charges for importing them from Australia. I ended up spending almost $350 for four irises, and none of them ended up blooming right for me. In fact, I ended up purchasing more rhizomes of three of them from Keith a couple of years later, and that's how I finally got blooms on GLAMAZON, RARER THAN RUBIES and TRULY WICKED. So I consider my one venture into importing irises from Australia pretty much a bust. But I think Tom had a much better experience than I did.

However, Keith Keppel gets them from Barry at least a year before they are introduced and gets them acclimated to our opposite seasons so they are on our schedule for blooming, plus there is no extra $40+ charge for importing them from overseas. So that's why I look to Keith Keppel for my Blyth irises now, and they grow really well for me.
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Feb 22, 2012 11:32 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Thanks Betty I knew they were more expensive I wish Kieth carried all of his new intros for this year I would defintely buy some more from him I have been looking for someone in my zone with similar winters that we have that has had some luck ordering direct from Australia but I hate to spend that kind of money and have the same luck you did with them.
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Feb 23, 2012 5:34 AM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
You're right Betty, I had a better experience. I just did it the one time, though. I ordered 3, and they sent 1 extra. I got them in early April, and potted them up. They arrived in great shape, and started growing right away. 3 of them bloomed yet that summer, and I let them bloom. The next year they bloomed again, and have been good ever since. The cost wasn't that great at the time, as the money exchange was favorable for US currancey over the Austrailian money, around $3 of our dollars = $4 of theirs. That may be different now. You can e-mail Barry, and he will help you with that information. Also give you the best dates to ship. They ususally end their shipping in April. If I ever do that again, I won't waist time potting them. I'd just plant them (per Keppel suggestion, as that's what he does with good success). Since then, I've just ordered them from Keith Keppel, since, as Betty mentioned, he has most of his newer stock, at least up until now, who knows how long he will be doing that, as he mentioned in his latest catalog.
Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Feb 23, 2012 10:28 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Birds The WITWIT Badge Garden Ideas: Level 1 Roses
Irises Daylilies Cat Lover Region: California Region: United States of America
If you're both really interested in ordering from Barry Blyth, why don't you go together to place an order and then you can share the extra costs. And if you order enough between the two of you, maybe he would send two bonus plants and you could each get one. Actually, he suggests that people go together when ordering to share the costs, and if you let him know what you're doing maybe he would send two bonus plants anyway. And whoever receives them could forward on the other person's order. And then you could relate back to us how the experience/experiment went. And you could tree-mail each other on this website to set it up! Just a suggestion...
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Feb 23, 2012 3:05 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Betty I havent quite decided which ones yet, I am still waiting on Joes catalog last year he had quite a few of the newer varities from Barry, Im hoping he has some of the ones Im looking for It would be great to get them already acclimated to the change of seasons and the quality and size of his bulbs is always great not to mention he is definitely generous with his bonus Iris
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Feb 23, 2012 8:03 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
Seller of Garden Stuff Garden Ideas: Level 1
Joe Ghio said his catalogue would be out mid March.
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Feb 23, 2012 11:26 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Birds The WITWIT Badge Garden Ideas: Level 1 Roses
Irises Daylilies Cat Lover Region: California Region: United States of America
Oh pooh -- not till then? I was hoping for around the 1st of March.
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Feb 27, 2012 3:21 PM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Well, i've been sorting through some older pictures, and found Imprimis, an older Blyth 1993, but I like it. and Snowed In

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And World Class
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Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Feb 27, 2012 6:11 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
Seller of Garden Stuff Garden Ideas: Level 1
How lovely!
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Feb 27, 2012 9:20 PM CST
Name: Brad
iowa (Zone 5a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Celebrating Gardening: 2015
I like snowed in thats really nice
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Feb 28, 2012 9:12 AM CST
Name: Katherine Howe
Raytown(Kansas City) MO
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
I looked at these amoenas again this morning and found myself scrambling to order another one that I do not have. I have many of the ones pictured here in these posts. For some unknown reason the amoenas just excite me beyond others. I am just not sure why. Maybe I like color blocking. The contrasts in and amoena just grab my sense of beauty. Though I have many others it seems I am gravitating heavily toward amoenas.

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