Post your early bloomers

Here's my NOID. I can't find my picture to tell me what Iris this is.

Carol

Dutch Gardens helped me name mine. It's Autumn Prince. It's not as dark as their picture, so it fooled me.

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Your killing me Louise!! Love them all

NO Marie, no until after the RU!
Carol, I love your NOID.

Thank you, weegy12.

Carol

Carol, if you find your picture with the name, can we trade??!!?!?

You have mail weegy12.

Carol

Yea Carol!

weegy, those are beautiful. It must be a joy to be in your yard now? Can you give us a wide shot or the beds?

Marie did they give a reason they won't grow there? I am asking because we don't get heat like you do so they may do well here.

Thanks cactus...It is a joy to be in the iris garden, everyday there's another bloom. I will get a shot of the garden next week. The weather has turned cold and cloudy so it won't make a good picture.

Here's a good picture of my garden taken last week, but there are many more blooms now than just this.

Holy Cow! That looks so cool and organized! Yup--I'm amazed by the concept of ROWS of Iris! LOL

Do your neighbors love the iris field? I would be clinging to the chainlink fence drooling like a kid with no money at the ice cream truck!

Going on my list: Navy Blues, Sunny Shoulders and Wine Time=)

No surprisingly, the neighbors don't pay much attention to it. People will drive by and look but for the most part, neighbors don't come around. It's my mom's property and whether or not she gets neighbors coming by when I'm not there, I don't know. She kind of keeps to herself and doesn't really talk to many of her neighbors, except for the ones right next door to the iris garden, now they love the flowers! I live about 20 minutes from her and try to get there as much as possible. It only looks clean and organized because I took this picture the day I had someone weed it for me! You should have seen it before!
I really like the concept of "rows of irises" rather than sporadic planting. I just think it's awesome when almost all of them are blooming but of course I have the room there to do rows, here at my own yard, I have a smaller iris garden, about 70, and it is also in rows and it's a mess, the weeds are really coming in since I watered.

Mine are just starting up--bloom stalks on Juicy Fruit and Peekaboo Zebu. But my SDB's are already going. Here's Welch's Reward:

Opps--Welch's Reward is acrtually an MTD. Sorry! And here's Jillaroo...

And this one is a NOID--somehow the cats relieved it of its tag. It's a bitty and quite lovely...anybody recognize it?

Very nice, sorry I don't know you NOID.

I would check out Pink Pele as am attaching a photo of mine.

If you truly want to identify it, buy from grower and plant next to this NOID and see.

D

Love that Pink Pele. Thanks for that shot weegy. LOL! I was thinking how all those were landscaped, never thought they would be in rows. : )

Here's some LA's for ya'll--peak of season has been interupted by fence replacement this year--but most of the close ups are making the PlantFiles.
Debbie

Well I guess a pic would be helpful--lol--the 2 x 4's holding up the other fence really make the shot.
=)

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LOL! Those are wonderful dmj!

Debbie that is a great shot!!

Thanks Marie and Weegy--I think the 2 x 4's holding up the back fence really make the shot--lol

I'm just thankful 1/2 of the fence is done--its nice not to have everyone in the neighborhood watching you label LA Iris. Have to do a little "tweeking" to the labels every year as they travel a bit.

Here's a nice pink 'Feliciana Hills' from this morning with a friend.

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Oh I love pink! This forum is gonna cost me! LOL!

one more group shot for the season

weegy,
What a great iris garden, I grow a few myself up here but ours are only popping up slowly right now. If you go back to your second post I just love that white ruffly "Arctic Express" a wonderful white! I will definately look for that one.
Thanks for sharing your pictures keep them coming,
cocoa

Thanks Cocoa!
There are so many wonderful irises out there, I'm just kind of lurking now, letting others post some of theirs.

dmj,
Great group shots, it is wonderful to visit other gardens.
Thanks for taking the time to share yours,
cocoa

Candy Apple Classic is blooming right now.

so beautifulto see iris this early
still freezing our bum off here
one day warm next freezing AHHH OKLAHOMA !

It seems like my first bloom this year used a calender since its April Fools Day..

A lovely smooth flower. ID? We are still getting crocus in bloom.

Here's my first bloom of the season. Sorry, I don't remember the name at the moment, but I got it from someone here. Thank you, by the way, this one is so beautiful.

The dwarf with the four petals is Jewel Baby

I'm waiting for my crocus to bloom. It is late for a huge snowbank is melting over most of my garden. Enough has melted today to see a crocus bud coming along usually they bloom around the end of March. I see my wooden raised beds poking out of the snow now and yesterday they were not. Very late for cleaning up my garden. Usually first iris bloom Blue Doll, MDB blooms May 10th. Do not know what will happen this year.

Going nuts from cabin fever.

one reticulata "Harmony" was our first iris flower & that is not April Fool. It is the only one in that spot which has stated around, its parteners are gone. didn't order more last yr. because of the drought we will see what this fall will bring.

Now Hagar's Helmet is doing its thing...
(Hooker Nichols, 1977). Intermediate Bearded Iris, height: 20". Solid yellow with the added feature of up to 1 1/2" horns or spoons growing from the ends of its beards! Classified as a Space Age Iris, this one grows to about 20" tall.

Ok, here goes...from yesterday.

Bargello Art ( better picture than I posted above)

I'll post more later, have to cross check a couple before posting.

This I just found out is a NOID. It's marked with a name but the name it's marked, it is not.
(any ideas of what it might be?)

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