I just notice when I read the list of my new Irises this year, most of them shows bloom season as Mid to Late, very few shows early bloom season.
I just wonder if you can help me with what Irises that usually bloom early (hopefully here in North Texas too) so I can add them to my 2019 order list.

Thank you

Javamom, he re are a few early bloomers.


Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Saturday Night Live')

Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Strawberry Frosting')

Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Grateful Red')

Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Disguise')

Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Grand Bargain')

Look in the iris database and specify "early" and see how many there are.

In my garden,

BUSY BEING BLUE is early.

CHARISMATIC and AUTUMN THUNDER seem to be registered all over the map re bloomtime, but have bloomed early here (not a long track record, though).

SNOW DAY bloomed starting in early April this year (which would be Early to Early Mid), although it is registered as a Mid or Mid Late. (But it is also a rebloomer, so who knows what was going on with it.)

BUSY BEING BLUE was always the first to bloom in my garden, but this year CHARISMATIC might have beaten it.

Full Tide is one of the first to bloom in my garden.
Needlepoint is another. :
And Delirium too :
Will edit to post pictures.

I think 'Nessun Dorma' has been my first the past few years, quickly followed by 'Persian Berry'. They bloom with the first of the IB's..

My earliest tall bearded irises are
Hells fire

Momentum

Ballet performance

In my garden, some of the first irises to bloom are:

Aaron's Dream



Navy Blues



Lady Friend



Going My Way



Barbara My Love

Thank you Richard, Evelyn, Marilyn, Sherry, Barbara, Robin, Andrea for all the help.
From this year order, I saw these Irises as early, early-mid :

Adoree
By Jeeves
Drama Queen
Enjoy the Party
For Lovers only
Good Looking
Pirate Ahoy
Royal Harlequin
Role Model
Tango Amigo
Toronto
That Song

It would be interesting to see next year when they are blooming...
From what I have growing and look at the photos dates my Irises here are started blooming around the last week of March with Ring around the Rosie and one yellow that I don't know or forgot the name:





The bloom season are April and May.

Thanks again all,

I try not to order too many early ones as they usually do not do well in Kentucky - get frost-bitten. I have noticed that I tend to order mid-late ones now since our show is usually in mid-May. I do enjoy the hardy ones that do bloom early like Ballet Performance.

Most of the time I fall in love with the blooms and don't even look at the bloom time. If I do remember, then I try to not order the very late ones because most of the blooms melt in the heat here. I do need to try putting some of the very late ones in more shade to see if that helps.

Coffee Shop and Jumpin' Jack Flash are my earliest tb bloomers.

Coffee Shop and Jumpin' Jack Flash are my earliest tb bloomers.JJF is listed in the database as Mid-late! Coffee Shop is listed as Very very early.

Thank you Jane, Barbara and Jan, I also notice from not many of late shows latre bloom season.
Not part of this thread, but we got 5 continuous days of rain, pouring down hard until Tuesday night. Today I went out and check some of them and few feels a little squishy, so I pulled 1 out and take hot, also took a couple photos of ones on the bed.. IDoes it look rotted or normal?
The first 2 are the same rhizome I pulled.

Thank you all

That first rhizome doesn't look good to me.
The others that are still in the ground look ok, I think. When I had rot due to too much water, the leaves turned yellow and mushy at the point where they met the rhizome. Your plants still look green, as far as I can tell. That's just my opinion and I am certainly not an expert.

iciris said:Most of the time I fall in love with the blooms and don't even look at the bloom time. If I do remember, then I try to not order the very late ones because most of the blooms melt in the heat here. I do need to try putting some of the very late ones in more shade to see if that helps.

Barbara, I avoid the late bloomers for the same reason. It would be nice to have a long bloom season, but when the 90's start in May, the blooms just don't last.

So true Andread. Last year on my way home at 115 in the aafternoon I was hitting 120 degree temps.

Thanks @AndreaD, so should I cut off the little increase and dry them off and plant later on ?
I am sorry about mistype words (couldn't really see with my old eyes ) I used my phone so I can upload the photos.
They are in raised beds, but because so much rains I worry about some got rotted, but today when I went and cleaned a little bit, I saw that the rain also brought up so many increases

You could cut off the increase if it looks healthy, give it a bath in a 10% bleach solution, let it dry for a day and replant it. The other thing you can do if there are soft spots on a rhizome but most of it is firm is scrape out the soft tissue and sprinkle the exposed part of the rhizome with Comet.

Anybody else have any another opinion?

I'm afraid I have no experience with rot, so I cannot advise. It has been a relatively dry winter here (which is not good for the upcoming summer).

My earliest blooms are Mum's Indestructible Purple NOID, which started flowering in the last few days of July (remember, winter is June-August here). Unfortunately they get smashed about with the wind and rain that we get during this part of the year. I will probably keep a few and maybe use it in future for breeding (since it's so hardy), but will need to have it in a protected spot in my next garden.