Baby Blessed bloomed & bloomed last fall. I'm not fond of the older varieties, but sometimes you have to be impressed with their vigor. I only got this in fall 2010. It didn't bloom last spring, but bloomed in the fall & now seems prepared to bloom its heart out now. I should have gotten a closer photo

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Daughter of Stars is my first tall bearded iris in bloom, a month earlier than it normally blooms

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Glebe Brook, an SDB

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I have several other SDB & intermediates in bloom now, & buds on many tall beardeds. So very early!