Open today....

Here are a few SDBs open in my garden today.

Delicate Pink

Firestorm

Minidragon

Priviledged Character

Last one for today. Bijou.

Many, many, many more to come! :0)

Ooooh, 'Delicate Pink' has gone straight to the top of my loooong wish list.
Thank you for sharing those, they are all gorgeous :o)

Terri

Thanks, Terri!

Delicate Pink is new to me this year. I traded with laurief last year and this is one of the ones I received. I love her too. Delicate Pink is definitely the right name!

It's always nice to see your photos! I'm glad the season has started for you.
This is the first time I've seen Bijou.....adding it to 'the list'........oh dear!

Yes, 'Bijou' is very unusual. I'm glad I have it in my garden. Believe it or not, the bluish purple streaking is supposed to be there. It's not due to a virus or weather.

Love that Firestorm!

Sandy

They are all beautiful. Bijou is quite interesting.

Open today are 'What Again'

and 'Tweety Bird'

More to come in the next couple of days!

What did I tell you about Tweety? Darned ruffly thing is hard to capture fully open. ;-) But she is cute!

I'm always surprised at how What Again looks in other people's gardens. One of the few advantages my climate provides in terms of iris bloom is very heavy saturation of the anthocyanin pigments. I can't wait to see what Bijou looks like here. The poor little thing will probably turn completely blue! LOL!

Laurie

Laura - - those are sooooo neat!! Great photos too!! If I could grow SDB's here in the desert - - Bijou would be one of them. :-)

~Margie

Thanks, Margie! Yes, the medians do well here and I'm glad of it. However, you can grow a lot of TBs better than I can so that makes up for it.

laurief~Yes, 'Tweety' is hard to photograph. VERY ruffly...just the way I like them! :0) 'Bijou' was bred in CA, so yes, it will be very interesting to see how it looks in Minnesota!

Open today are:

Tooth Fairy, my favorite little MDB.

Dollop. (I took the picture from the top so you could see that the inside is blue.)

A new one for me this year, Awake.

Jazzamatazz

Last one for today. Tattler.

More to come! :0)

Oh, I DO like Awake!

Laurie

Woops, missed one! Last one for today is Jive. I took a top shot so that you could see the awesome color and pattern on this one!

Yes, I'm liking 'Awake' as well. This was it's maiden bloom. I want to take a picture after the sun starts going down. In the sun, you lose some of the beautiful pale blue tones and the pattern doesn't show up as nicely.

You're right, Jive is awesome - a rounder, more ruffly version of one of my favorites, Pele. Wonderful!

I thought the same thing, Laurie. It reminds me of 'Pele' with much better form!

Pele is a very slow increaser for me. How does Jive compare with Pele in your garden in terms of increase?

You have so many really beautiful SDB! I'm with Margie. I wish that I could grow them too. Their sweet faces are really hard to resist.

Thanks so much for posting them Laura. Seeing them is something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise so I'm appreciating it a lot.

doss,

Happy to post their cheery little faces! That is one advantage of living in a colder climate...all of the medians! However, some of the plants you get to grow as perennials make me green with envy!


laurie~

'Pele' is a very slow increaser for me as well. After three years, I still only have about 4-5 rhizomes. 'Jive', on the other hand, went from one rhizome to eight or nine in one season! :0)

OOOOHHHH! I love Jive! I ordered it from the co-op so I can't wait to get it, plant it and watch it grow! And I MUST get AWAKE (since they are so small, I won't have a problem find a spot for it).

I agree, irisluvr. I love both of those. Here's a small clump shot of 'Jive'. I took it from above to show the pattern.

Here's a better shot of 'Awake'. In the shade you can see her delicate coloration a lot better.

WOW! Luv'em!

Very nice babies aren't thses little ones great so many colors and forms and the great clumps
I so enjoy them
:)
Anita

I just took a lovely stroll through your iris garden and loved every minute of it!!! Saw many that I would like to grow!

Please explain the way you are naming them with the wire loop - and what kind of material is the name printed on? I need a beetter way of labeling my irises and daylilies.

Thanks for the beautiful pictures. Your pictures appear more detailed than mine. I have a Sony 6 megapixel with a Carl Zeus(sp) lens but I think the booklet said for internet uploading, use the 680 (or something like that) resolution. That is the lowest setting. Is there a way to take the pictures with higher resolution and then shrink them?

Louise

So many wonderful irises. Thanks for the pictures, Elaine

Thanks for the compliments, Louise. I'm not very techy, so I don't know how to shrink my pictures. I always upload them in the large form. Sorry I can't be of much help there. You can take them in any resolution you choose. I think they recommend the smaller pictures so that if someone is on dial-up it doesn't take them as long to dowload it. I'm kind of a dummy when it comes to using my own camera.

I used 11.5" zinc markers with clear labels attached to the face. The clear labels disappear once they're attached, so it looks as if the name of the iris has been printed right onto the marker.