What you show here is why I'm reducing the number of amaryllis I grow. They are beautiful for 5 days and won't bloom again until next year. Not a recipe for a wonderful landscape plant!

Enjoy your daylilies! I am.

Those iris still look great to me. I originally got into the tall bearded iris because I wanted color and blooms and flowers in the garden earlier than the daylilies start. First I tried extra early daylilies but that was a dissapointment so I started adding TB and Siberian Iris, I expanded on my bulb lily collection. Adding more spring bulbs also. Plus the roses, the idea is to go from one type of bloms to another to another continuely all summer long. I get the longest bloom period out of the daylilies by going from early to very late bloomers. I get the most repeat from my roses.

Its too early around here for daylily scapes yet. The first of my TB iris only bloomed today.

Gorgeous iris. They look like a group of little girls playing dress up. TB come in a wider range of colors than any other flower that I can think of. It was my hobby flower when I lived in Montana, they were one of the few flowers that really thrived, and in fact there was a bearded iris farm right outside Billings, where I lived. The most unusual one I had was very tall (46") and was mottled beige and ivory. I've never seen it growning anywhere except in my yard in Billings. I got it from a lady who said please come over and dig up some of my iris, they need dividing. So I did. Thanks for the pictures. Christine

Your iris look gorgeous Kay. What is the one in the upper left hand corner of the 2nd picture? And is the white with edge in the 1st picture, Rare Treat? I have that one and it looks very similar. I keep adding more iris every year. They are just beautiful.
I have about 25 daylilies with scapes right now. Can't wait for the blooming to begin.
Michelle

Thank you all for looking at the iris.

Rita, My first TB iris opened 4-18-10, and the show has been pretty continuous. The Dutch iris opened about a week earlier.

Beachlily, The iris will bloom about a month or a little more, and I will have overlap with the daylilies. I have planted a few amaryllis this year.

Annie, it sounds as if you may have had a unique iris there.

Michelle, that one is actually Classic Look, but there are a number of them with similar coloring...I too keep adding both iris and daylilies every year. I have got to break it to DH that he is losing a few more feet of lawn in the front. Need it. Got to have it. Daylilies are getting ready to start. Wahoo!

kay

I'm going to be cutting more into the yard, I need to divide & spread out my iris a bit more. Ok, a LOT more. Your iris are so lovely. What is the tall one with the red falls in the 2nd picture, top left? I don't remember seeing one like that before.

Lets see how long it lasts. Be sure and record when they end too. Looks like the digging and expanding is catching also :-))

Kay, your irises are beautiful.. I can't wait for Dl pix.. Ellie