Irises: Spring Dreaming? Show Me your Iris!, 1 by boojum

boojum wrote:
Hi, looks like I missed the thread for a while but I had Bumblebee Deelite at my old garden in zone 5 and it was busy as a bee, spreading. Very happy plant. I also had Tyke (white standards, dark purple falls with graphic veining) and the same size as BBD.

I took many rhizomes with me when I moved and I kept them in a cold inside area in a paper bag and many of them dried out. I think it was lack of moisture that did them in, rather than cold. I planted them and some sent up leaves but only one bloomed this year. I agree with laurie that roots are the priority.

Here's a closeup of the BEE.