Siberian Iris 'Caesar's Brother'

I had 2 plants installed into my landscape last fall.
By spring the green leaves began to shoot up.
I watched and watched a...Read Morend finally found some faded blooms had appeared. I missed their bloom because they bloomed near the ground level.
Does this mean they were planted to deep or are they just young plants? They are on a drop irrigation, in foggy Daly City California. I am hoping year two will be better.

This is one tough & persistant iris. Beautiful too. I transplanted my Caesar's Brother from a field that was an old home site. The hou...Read Morese was torn down in the 1950s but this iris remained and bloomed among blackberry vines and tall grass with no care for half a century! It is identical to the other 'Ceasar's Brother' irises that I have grown for years. It was hybridized by Morgan and was the Morgan award winner in 1953.

This Iris has thrived in alkaline clay soil with drip line watering in summer for four years. Last year, there were 8-10 blooms on each c...Read Morelump. The plant gets full hot sun on a southern slope in summer but is shaded by the house in winter. Looks like its time to divide them now, as the centers are just now thinning out. This is a hearty plant with spring flowers that always get compliments!

This plant has been a phenomenal success under the most oppressive conditions. We have a steeply sloping concrete driveway which channel...Read Mores rivers of water down to the bottom any time we get a Georgia cloudburst. This leaves the bottom of the drive flooded and filled with the soil the water brought down with it. We dug a swale at the edge of the yard next to the driveway bottom to drain the water and silt out of the drive, which it does. However, this swale area goes from one awful condition to the other (arid clay in the unrelenting full sun most of the time to swamped and silty after a rain). On the advice of the folks at Triple Creek Flower Farm (see DG Garden Watchdog) last September, we planted several miscanthus and several Caesar's Brother iris in that swale after adding moderate soil amendments and covered it with round egg rocks. We didn't touch it with water or anything else in the months since. The foliage has flourished since late winter and this week (April 25) the startlingly beautiful deep midnight blue blooms are opening in heavy profusion on elegant, slender stalks. If it can perform so well in this situation, I can't imagine what it would do somewhere nurturing. Thanks to Triple Creek for their helpfulness...it has turned an ugly problem area into a purposeful, lovely focal point.

This variety of siberian iris performs well in Houston, Texas.

One of my favorite iris. Lots of deep purple blooms, foliage is also beautiful. Likes some moisture. Dependable.

Also Groundhog resistant.

One of early summer's most dependable blooms here in z5. Beautiful color and high bud count.