Plant: Dwarf Iris "Danfordiae"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 24
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: These are very tiny yellow blooms. A few have touches of white in their blooms. Planted 14 in the side garden with a set of standard iris reticulata.
Planted 10 more from Brent and Becky's Bulbs in fall 2007.
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Plant: Dwarf Iris "Joyce"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 24
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Early March
Notes: Planted to the right of the weeping cherry. These are darker blue and slightly larger than standard iris reticulata. |
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Plant: Iris Reticulata
Source: Lowe's
Quantity: 30
Planted: 10/30/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted in front garden. Flower petals are much thinner than our original iris reticulata which used to be planted in the back garden. |
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Plant: Dwarf Iris "J. S. Dyt"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 24
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted to the left of the weeping cherry. |
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Plant: Iris Reticulata
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 24
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted in side garden among Iris Danfordiae.
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Plant: Iris reticulata "Natascha"
Source: Brent & Becky's Bulbs, Wayside Gardens
Quantity: 40
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted 20 from Brent & Becky's Bulbs in back garden. Six of the bulbs were a different variety than I ordered, but the color contrast is nice so I'm trying to be okay with the error. Planted 20 more from Wayside Gardens on 10/29/05. |
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Plant: Iris Reticulata "Cantab"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 18
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. Pleasant, light blue blossoms.
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Plant: Iris Reticulata "Katharine Hodgkin"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 15
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: These have the widest petals and the most unusual coloring of all of our iris reticulata. They also appear to be the most short-lived but that's because they all bloom at exactly the same time, rather than staggered over several days. |
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Plant: Dwarf Iris "Harmony"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 24
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted on the north side of the house. |
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Plant: Dwarf German Iris "Little Blue Eyes"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Late April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. This iris is amazing. It blooms very well in the spring and then again in the fall (September - November). The flowers last a couple of days each. Less than half of the plants produce blooms with a blue splotch on them but the rest have a white splotch instead. It bloomed very well in spring 2006, but only one bloom appeared in fall 2006. They rebloomed well again in spring 2007. Divided these in fall 2007; gave away half the plants to my aunts and still had enough left over to spread out into a larger area. |
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Plant: Dwarf German Iris "Cyanea"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/29/05
Blooms: Late April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. This is a cute little white-blue iris.
I highly recommend dwarf German irises! These are supposed to rebloom but haven't yet for me. |
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Plant: German Iris "Loop the Loop"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Mid-May
Notes: Planted in back garden. This is an absolutely gorgeous flower. It does not rebloom. |
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Plant: German Iris "Sugar Blues"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Mid-May
Notes: Planted in back garden. This is a lovely shade of blue. Reblooms heavily September - November. These poor things got dug up and replanted, then moved back into place in summer 2006, because the heinous dragonflowers I removed in 2005 kept coming up beneath them. I used this as an opportunity to split the rhizomes. I'm relieved to report that they have survived their trauma, but they didn't rebloom quite as well in fall 2006. Gave away several plants to my mother-in-law in fall 2006, and many more to my aunts in fall 2007, with plenty left to spare. |
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Plant: German Iris "Low Ho Silver"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/29/05
Blooms: Early May
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. Did not bloom in spring 2006, but made up for it with a beautiful show in October.
Bloomed nicely in spring 2007. |
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Plant: Siberian Iris "Gull's Wing"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in back garden. We planted these the same way as our bearded iris, which was a mistake. They need to be planted below the soil's surface. As a result, only one or two survived. Didn't bloom in 2005, but I got three blooms in 2006 and a few more in 2007. |
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Plant: Louisiana Iris "Ann Chowning"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 6
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Early June
Notes: Planted in back garden. Didn't bloom in 2005, most likely because we planted these too shallowly. Bloomed fairly well in 2006 and even better in 2007. These are a deep maroon color. |
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Plant: Siberian Iris "Butter & Sugar"
Source: Spring Hill Nursery, Van Dyck's, Sundown Gardens
Quantity: 7
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Late May
Notes: I accidentally ordered only one of these from Spring Hill originally. Ordered 5 more for planting in spring 2005, but Van Dyck's only shipped 2, which we planted 4/26/05. Planted 3 missing plants 5/3/05. Added a mature plant from Sundown Gardens on 10/23/05. Didn't bloom in 2005 and the only bloom in 2006 withered and died. We finally got decent blooms in 2007. |
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Plant: German Iris "Jennifer Rebecca"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 6
Planted: 11/08/05
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in back garden originally, then move to far back garden in 2006 in an attempt to save them when fungus struck the mulch around them. Two had previously rotted but the other four are healthy. Didn't bloom at all in 2006, but bloomed nicely in 2007, followed by a lot more rotting.
I currently have only one left. |
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Plant: German Iris "Immortality"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 3
Planted: 9/22/06
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in far back garden. Doing very well. |
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Plant: Japanese Iris "Fortune"
Source: Dutch Gardens
Quantity: 3
Planted: 4/13/06
Notes: Planted in back garden. Not doing much of anything, but two are still alive. All other Japanese irises can be found on the Failures page. |
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