Well, I finally broke down today and ordered some irises. The Schreiner's sale catalog got here today-- what could I do?

Out of all of those spectacular, unbelieveably ruffled, color-washed, laced beauties I picked the following:

1. Feed Back

2. Violet Turner

3. Mariposa Autumn

4. Maria Tormena

5. Tennison Ridge

and oooooooh! not on sale but all of ten bucks!

6. Victoria Falls

I know, I know. My fundamentally conservative superego had me buying all tried-and-true rebloomers.

Sorry the list is so dull. I'm reintroducting blues and violets into my garden this year after an ill-thought out attempt to make all the colors go together last year.

What actually got me to order was the bonus iris: No Count Blues. I had been drooling over Walking on Air,

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/215076/

a Black intro, but this is similar and FREE!

These rebloomers will help make the twelve months of non-stop gardening chores here in Socal worth the effort.

I'll try to post photos of clump shots of any Schreiner's sale irises that I have in the yard over on the gallery side (some may be repeats, sorry).

Renee

Here is a link that might be useful: No Count Blues