iris swap.TB enter name to be a part of...

enter your name to be a part of this, and only if you want to do it...

I'll have to wait til next year...I've got none to swap yet :(

ok, next year.... anyone else I am going to say May 1, 2009 is the cut off......sound OK???

count me in!!!!

they are going to be named iris right?

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I will let you know by May 1st. Still have about 1 foot of snow on top of my irises and won't know what is there until it melts. :)

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Count me in! Happy Monday BIF's!!

sounds like I have some takers, great....yes named iris only..this should be fun:)

count me in. i have no clue what i'm getting into but anything to do with iris oughta be lots of fun.

i think it will and that is half the fun a surprise:)

makj, dear, you can count me in also, please. I've never done this before either, but I think it just might be fun!

great!!!! grannyh will do, I think it will be.....

I'm interested. How is this going to work? Are we going to list what we have available or is this going to be pot luck?

pot luck is good for me, i love suprises!!!!

count me in

potluck.....I plan on choosing 4 of my great irises and using them for a swap....are there really any ugly iris?????

Do you have the guidelines/rules figured out yet ? The dates ?

I have hundreds of irises, so pot luck won't work for me as I really don't need stuff that I've already got.

YES there are ugly iris!!LOL Happy Tuesday BIF's!!!

Yes, I would like to join. I have about 250 iris and will make a list of those I most want. I am not sure I want to post it on my trade list though because I already have enough trading partners. Maybe I could just post it here. I warn you though. It is long.

Count me in.

I think the list thing may not work well, as we all have hundreds of iris, but picking some unusual ones maybe or some we think are "special", as you can see it can get really crazy, so that is why I would like to do the secret swap, we are only talking about 4 iris, this shouldn't make or break our collecting. I think if everyone lets me know by okay say June 1. Rules well, named TB iris only. please be honest and dig your own and think about what you are sending....is this an iris I myself would want and size etc....we don't have to be real fussy, but we want things fair for everyone in this...please feel free to add ideas etc... after all this is for all of us and we want it to be fun....this is one iris I got by way of "left overs" at our yearly rhizome sale for our club....and I was tickled to get it bloom...I will send another one the same story and it is beautiful...

that was Concertina and this next one is little blue eyes, adorable

just a cool shot I thought.....

beautiful pics makj.

Was that really Concertina? I didn't realize it had horns!

ahh those are pretty, i love blue beards.

i don't really care what i may get or if i already have it. if i have it, it's because i like it and the more the merrier.

Yes, that is Concertina! I looked it up. It does have horns! Gorgeous!

concertina is a great little iris, small but mighty, I have several in different places and so far three different one's in different places are blooming now....to say it is a re-bloomer is an understatement. great grower and a beauty to boot.

One of the Iris that I already know I have extra of is TB Iris 'EPICENTER'.....is this the kind you are referring to?

Epicenter is a knock out. I bet that would qualify.

Count me in.

grannyh YES!!!!! see that is a wonderful iris and who would be disappointed to get that....

Oh good!!!...I wasn't sure how new everyone wanted them to be in order to be in on the swap and EPICENTER is dated back to 1994.

I can only speak for myself, but I would like anything for about the past 20 years if it is interesting.

I agree, there are some awesome iris from several years ago, and hey lets face it they are just as beautiful today as they were then...

Here's a photo from 3 years ago of 'two' of our Iris beds that I had just reset. So you are really doing this swap at a good time for me, since I'll need to get in those two beds again and do a little thinning out.....it's their turn this year, you know!

I'm not sure how the 'secret swap' thing works, makj, as I have never done this before, but I'll keep checking back to this thread for more info.

I am suppose to dmail you with my list of 4 Iris before June 1st...right?

This is going to be so much fun!!

Sorry!!!.....I had a little trouble getting the picture to go thru..!!

( ....a computer whiz I am not...lol!!!)

good photo grannyh, well not that I have done this before, but I think we can figure it all out and do a swap.
I thought maybe we would just have everyone's name that wants to be in this and each person can send what they want, so even I don't know, I will select names, draw one out of hat etc...to match up people....NO ONE will know who is getting what.....

You know makj, that is a terrific idea. Fair and easy -- more or less -- on you. I look forward to it.

Grannyh,
Those are gorgeous iris beds -- worthy of an estate! I bet you have some outstanding iris there.

GrannyH, lovely photo and such a pretty bed. Mine are more natural looking rather than the manicured estate look. I do so like the sound of natural rather than weedy, don't you?