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So beautiful!
Irises are all so lovely, they come in such gorgeous, rich colours.
Wow! They are all amazing but I think the top one is my favourite.
I love the top one too. I wish I could remember its name.
No words needed!
We all love Irises. I look forward to them all year.
Absolutely stunning! Love the last one.
I think the last one is Raspberry Frost. I like it because it is a bit more of an unusual colour for an Iris.
Gorgeous! Love them all, but that orange one 6th photo from the top is adorable, and I love the lemony one below that too! 😀
I love the yellow one too. It is called Benton Primrose and was bred by Sir Cedric Morris who lived not far from here.
Such a great collection of irises. I find it amazing how each one can be the most beautiful!
I can never decide which I like best they are all so lovely. I have quite a few more which I will show another day.
I clicked on the first Iris to enlarge it, without realising you had so many – brilliant!
They are lovely. I bought some from Cayeux in France, and they are all rather over the top in frilliness, but I love them. I don’ t think an Iris needs to be tasteful.
All utterly amazing, and so sumptuous! I love them all! It is definitely “Iris time”! By the way, is the palest blue one, (9th down) your unknown one, similar to mine?
Yes, that’s the one I meant Ali. If you find out it’s name please let me know. It looks the same as yours doesn’ t it?
It does! And I will ask!
I may have a name for our unknown iris. The nursery has got back to me and thinks it may be “Immorality”. Mind you, irises can appear so similar, but I’m happy to go with that! Oh, and I’m getting a replacement iris! It all paid off! 🙂
I’ m glad you are getting a replacement. Thank you for getting back to me with the suggested name for the Iris. I don’ t think mine is Immortality as this is pure white. Mine is tinged with lilac and I think it might be White City which was bred by Murrell and won a Dykes medal. I have a friend in Suffolk Plant Heritage who is trying to collect irises which won Dykes medals between the 1920s and 1940s and she thinks that mine might be this one.
Wow! Can’t wait for mine!
I hope you will show us them when they come into flower.
Oooh, irises–one of my very favourite flowers. The top photo really hooked me in. It’s wonderful, with the bright light behind the flower and all the detail on the iris.
They are the most amazing flowers and come in such rich colours.
Fantastic collection, I tried to pick my favorite but failed miserably! I’ll have the lot please.
That’ s the trouble, there are so many hundreds of Irises available and they are all gorgeous. I want to grow them all.
What an amazing range you have – I think I like the last one best too. How long do the flowers last?
The individual flowers only last a couple of days but there are more buds to come so they go on for 2 or 3 weeks at the most. I prolong the season by having some that flower later than the others.
They are wonderful flowers as you well illustrate here. xx
They are amazing flowers, I just wish the flowers would last a bit longer.
I love Irises more and more, especially as they grow well with no water. I can’t tell you which one I like the best because they are all the best! I bought some more last week, I’ll show them soon.
I look forward to seeing your new ones. I love them all.
Amazing selection! Hard to know if I love the orange or the white and yellow the best.
I think one of my favourites is the third one down, Sannopin which I fell in love with when I saw it at Sissinghurst. It was bred by an American ; Lloyd Pillow who was the superintendent of the city’ s sewers at Pittsburgh. Clearly Mr. Pillow had poetry in his soul even though he had a silly name and spent his days busy with sewarage.
Beautiful irises, and I like your comment that irises don’t need to be tasteful, perfect!
As much as I try to be tasteful and refined I can’t help but love all the ruffly colors. I’ve been trying to show restraint but may someday allow a few into the garden. It’s not that they’ll look out of place (there’s plenty of plants of poor taste around here) but I just hate to think of the addiction I might light fire to!
Yes but the great thing about an Iris addiction is the short time that they are in flower. Before you have had time to dig up the whole garden and fill it with irises, they are over and you are obsessing about roses. I am anyway. At the moment I’ m worrying about where to put the three new ones I had to have. And roses go on blooming for much longer than irises.
absolutely beautiful! 🙂