That time of the year when the boxes come rolling in and we have to get busy finding a place to plant them all. My first box of the season arrived this morning. Funny how UPS took 7 days to arrive from the West coast, and I sent one to Calif. via USPS and it got there in 2 days.

From Mid-America

I ordered:
Box Of Chocolates (2)
Catch You Later
Celebrity Dream
Coloring Book
Draw The Line
Found A Love
Grace And Beauty
Like A Dream
Make A Move
Moment Of Reflection
Natural Choice
Parade Of Stars
Plenty Of Jazz
Plot Twist
Rest Of The Story
Sheer Madness
Wild About You

Bonus Iris:
Major News
Make Up Your Mind
Plot Thickens
Power and Prestige
Attention Seeker
Vocalize
We Are Magic

Nice large healthy rhizomes

You are going to be busy planting all those lovely rhizomes!

You have ordered several I would love to have in my garden. I look forward to seeing photos of them

Thanks, Robin. I got pretty carried away with all the nice ones they had.
I got 2 more boxes yesterday.

From Iris Sisters I ordered:

Kindred
Margin Trader
Morning Minuet
Little Faun (SDB)

Bonuses:
Color Capers
Miss Independent Both of which I had, so I donated them to our iris club's door prize give away that was last night.

From Keith Keppel I ordered:

Amazon Sunset
Desert Chaparral
Hit Tune
Moving On
Romany Roque
Up Scale

Bonuses:
Karakul
Somebody Special
Wintercrest
Colorfast
Snowkiss
Steady Date

All very large and fresh rhizomes as usual.

At our club's meeting last night I got an iris as a door prize.

Road Home from Van Liere

Now comes the fun of planting all of them. Good thing I have the TB;s all divided so I should have room for them all.

Good grief, how on earth do you all MANAGE all those irises?!!!

Probably not as well as I should.

Wow, Tom, Keppel sent you a lot of bonuses!

Sounds like I will be getting a Mid-America box soon since people are reporting receiving theirs here and on Iris Lovers.

I did get a box today - all newer Burseens (what a surprise, right? )

Body Art
Cross Eyed Cat
Codswallop
Lookie Cookie
Pandamnit Prize
Tipofatongue
Zero Social Distance

Bonus:
Kerfuffle
Firgorrific
Judge's Special (I keep losing this one so hope this one does well )

really nice ones tom and leslie!

Tom, are you replacing "non-performers", or adding new beds?

Arlyn, I'm dividing a lot of large clumps, and culling some to make space for the new ones. The large clumps are pretty, but it's nice to have some new cultivars too.



Get the idea?

Tom, Those clumps are beautiful. Which varieties are in photos #1 and #2?

Especially love that #1 clump! Yes, name needed.

#1 is "Fancy Dress", it's a Keppel iris from 1998. I've had it for years, it's an amazing grower and never fails to bloom.


#2 is "Glamazon", It's a Blyth iris from 2007. It also grows and blooms on a regular basis.

Tom, I think you should definitely upload your clump shot of Fancy Dress to our NGA database.

OK, I just did as I see there were no clump shots in there.

I like Fancy Dress, too. Nice clump shot, Tom!

Some of my boxes have arrived, another should come in next week, and I have a few irises to pick up locally. The problem is that the new area I had been preparing for these irises turned out to have a lot of heavy clay. And it has been so hot and humid for many days, that I can't get much done in the garden. I think I may remove some of the clay soil and then mix in some bags of topsoil, along with the organic matter I had planned to add. But I will have to wait til next week when temperatures should drop into the upper 80s.

They can hold for quite a while, better then getting heat stressed. What irises did you get?

All I can say is WOW. You probably have the nicest iris spread even of commercial growers. You contribute a lot to this group of iris lovers. I would love to see them all in bloom. Maybe I need a drone. Good luck with your new plantings

Tom,hope you got all your iris related activities done as you had hoped.
I also hope the weather cooperated ,and that it wasn't as muggy as it was here the last 2 days.
And finally that you didn't succumb(as I did) to last minute panic ordering or "Sheer Madness"