Hi shar2926, I'd love to trade. The only water iris I have are the native blue flag and psudocorus (sp?). But here is my trade list in case you see something else you like http://members.gardenweb.com/members/exch/catrina I also have some receint posts on the plant exchange forum which you can probably find pretty easily by searching the plant exchange forum with my name (catrina). These look like realy nice plants so I understand if you want to hold out for some other ensatas. Tell me, I didn't find a lot on these with a google search. They are water iris is that right? It looks like the edged delight is white. What color is dream princess. I live in z4 but my "water garden" is a tank in my greenhouse which I'd say is equal to about a z6. The water does freeze in the winter. They would be on a shelf and covered with water to about pot level. Do you think they would do okay in this situation. Thanks for considering this trade. Catrina

Is that your cat helping to fertilize this beautiful plant? LOL!!!!!!!! I dont know its name, but it is beautiful!!! -cass

I bought many of them at the Elkhorn flea market last spring from local garden club members, and that's where 4 of these came from. The same folks were there this last Sunday, and they did have a couple pots with 'Clarence', but it wasn't in bloom yet. The other two - the little peachy/apricot dwarf came from a nursery called "Castle Gardens", but they didn't have any labeled like it this year, and the one called 'Blue Eyes' came from a nursery that I drove past just south of Chicago- but I don't recall the name. With that one, I suppose it's possible someone moved the plastic tag while it was at the nursery. Oh dear- champagne isn't champagne- that one came from a nursery called Flowerwood. I didn't question where the garden club folks got theirs from- didn't even cross my mind that they might be mislabelled. I was just too excited to be finding many different varieties that I bought whatever I could find (but boy am I paying for the oriental limelight artemisia mistake- it's everywhere in another bed now). Really love the iris colors, shapes and the small glittery-like sparkles on the petals in the sun. I've been having lots of fun with them, and they've become my favorite flowers. Not sure yet what a median is exactly though- I'll have to go look that up.

I'll have to get a LA iris and try the back lighting - that sounds really neat! This one must definitely be an ensata- it has the very noticeable ridges in the leaves (and they're really thin and long), and the rhizome is almost non-existant (more like just tangled roots). The flower was really gorgeous, so I'm very pleased. I'd like to get more of them, and that's why I was aking. :) One more question though- does anyone know if the ensata iris only blooms once from a rhizome like the bearded ones? Or does it continue blooming next year from the same leaf fan /rhizome segment? Thanks very much for the information!