Wow but 2020 was unkind to bearded iris here in North Carolina. It rained in record breaking amounts which broke the souls of my iris. They died in record numbers. So I dug up and potted a lot of them, and potted my new incoming iris too. Still lost some more but there are also many survivors that decided to hang on and have started to put up blooms.

The season started almost a month later than usual with my first bloom opening on April Fools Day, which seems appropriate for how foolish we can all become over our iris!

The bloom you ask, hoping I get to the pictures and stop jabbering, was......

Dragon's Den SDB (Chapman) looking glorious in the full sun. It is quite pale in the shade.

Checking in with this fabulous noid. I believe I purchased from M-A. Just lost the tag and need to check my invoice. What a lovely lil clump it's making!
Mystery SDB

back gabe, you've been missed. lovely noid.

Here's some progress on an area that has taken off. Soon I'll be showing what I planting in fall 2019. Espionage is one of the clumps!


Here's another in bloom. My first gifted SDB

NOSFERATU

Good start to your seasons, Leslie, and Gabe. Can't wait to see more of your blooms as they open. Gabe it's been a while since you've been on here, hope all is going well with you.

Gabe ~ Lovely garden area!

tveguy3 said:Good start to your seasons, Leslie, and Gabe. Can't wait to see more of your blooms as they open. Gabe it's been a while since you've been on here, hope all is going well with you.

Life threw a couple of curve balls here and there over the last year. Nothing major just human stuff lol. I had to weam myself of my iris addiction some. I haven't visited a website, page, or opened a catalog in almost 2 years after some major iris losses and then even more.

I think I'm a little more organized in life now and can start back on some other things like posting to here. I've also been idmiring Louisiana iris alot more lately since they thrive in our warmer wetter conditions. Speaking ok..

LA iris Jean Betzer me thinks





LA iris Selena Rose 😍


My LA section along the house just got weeded as well. Just finishing up and I'm going to pre emergent, fertilize and mulch. I let it go after fall planting 2020 and what a mess. Honestly ashamed, but we're all human. Flip side the plants are beast!! Feeling motived now and taking my garden back. Shout out to my mom today!

Before 😳


After🤘🏽

Life is full of curve balls, just don't forget to swing the bat anyway! If you have some replacements that you need, let me know and I'll see what I can do. We gotta keep you young guys interested.

tveguy3 said:… If you have some replacements that you need, let me know and I'll see what I can do. …

Same here. I also looked at your want list hoping you had listed what you lost, but I do have a couple on your want list.

Gabe: On your NOID,, any possibility it is Oh So Sweet? Also my It's Amazing blooms more like an SDB. Another possibility!!!

Gabe - your LA's are looking already???? Wow.
But I agree, they sure love our climate!

Does look like jean Better. You must have got it in your last order. Iris City?

👋🏽 🖐🏽 Waving at Gabe's mom--she's the best. 👏🏽💚

iciris said:
Same here. I also looked at your want list hoping you had listed what you lost, but I do have a couple on your want list.

Ditto.

Gabe: If you need replacements that I have, i can also pitch in if what I have is big enough to share.

Great start to the season Leslie and Gabe.

Gabe, you need to add "...and my mom will weed it!" to your tag line??

GreenIris said:Gabe: On your NOID,, any possibility it is Oh So Sweet? Also my It's Amazing blooms more like an SDB. Another possibility!!!

Cheery Blush by Paul Black. Found my order list from MA gardens in 2017. Whew

Lestv said:Gabe - your LA's are looking already???? Wow.
But I agree, they sure love our climate!

Some have stalks and 3 have bloomed. I found maybe 8 that frost bloomed this winter a waste. Otherwise just good growth. And yes to the Iris City order last year! That was my very last iris order to date.

As far as replacements, for now I'll have to take a pass. As much as I miss so many I never even saw bloom I'm just looking forward. Oh, I still have stock! Just super heavily reduced. LA's aren't dieing and I have far more of those than I could imagine.

I believe I received Boston Cream 2 years ago and wow to the wow! Major clump alert! I think I shared this on another thread or Facebook already but these were pics taken today. She's settled down after bloom and a major stunner loaded with buds!

Cheery Blush is very pretty!

There is one thing you can say about Donald Spoon - he sure names his dwarfs well.
Blue Hues is definitely blue - from first opening through being pollen covered.



It has lime green haft marks too!


I really like Tasco's Fancy Sparkler, though it did have to fight through serious pine pollen this year.



The pollen won. It rained and instead of washing it away it gave Fancy S pollen spots!



And we all love our Snow Peas!

Oh Wow!!! Beautiful picture of Snow Peas!!!

Okay, I'm awake now. This is Scream, and it is quite yellow.


Not as bright but a cute little thing is Irish Harp.


If you think you're seeing diamond dusting here it is actually pollen!


This is the dutch iris Montecito. It reminds me a lot of spuria iris. Quite tall too at almost 4 feet.

Cute bud