I'd imagine SDB's will do very well for you, Brad. In general, they are a lot tougher and more reliable than TB's in this continental climate we both "enjoy". They usually bloom about two weeks ahead of most TB's here.
Last year was the exception. Last spring was absolutely brutal, though. It was warm enough in March that everything started growing, then it snowed at least once a week all the way through April and even snowed the first week of May. It got hot pretty quickly after that so all of my irises ended up blooming together over a relatively short period. The one upside was that I was able to do some SDB to TB crosses. Since I've never figured out how to store pollen properly, I'd hadn't been successful with that before.
It's always windy here in the spring, but it usually starts to let up by late April. Not last year, the wind blew so hard one day in May that it tore a one year old clump of 'Blueberry Parfait' right out of the ground! One nice thing about SDB's, they are almost impervious to wind. Late frosts usually don't bother them much, either.
