I have over 450 named daylilies. I also have some other plants. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks, Lynne

I'm in zone 7 Maryland, for me Siberians start blooming the middle of May, a week to two weeks earlier than the Japanese Iris. The foliage of Japanese iris is overall more subtantial than that of Siberians. The leaf is wider and thicker, and has a fat, rigid mid-rib that keeps it from being floppy. It also stays a nice medium green the whole season (not as dark a green as Siberians). If your Siberian foliage held up well for you, there should be no problem with the Japanese. I have actually left the foliage on the whole winter some years and it was a quite attractive gray-brown, standing tall until I cut it down in February or March. They (at least my Japanese iris) set a lot of seed, and the pods are also attractive. Letting them go to seed hasn't seemed to affect the amount of bloom I get year to year. Sometimes I deadhead, sometimes I don't. But, unless you are particularly interested in seeing the results of genetic recombination, make sure to remove the seed pods before they start to split open - three or four years ago I didn't and I'm still getting seedlings all over the place. One of the seedlings was actually quite lovely (I somehow missed it weeding, and it got to blooming size), having gotten a deep purple color and flat, round form from one parent and a stripe/stippling pattern from another, so I kept it; the rest have gone to the compost pile... - Steve

They can and will jump out of the pot you put in the water. I have had it happen twice. ALL of that family of iris. Plant on outside of pond some way. They roots get out the bottom and you will be fighting them from then on . Only takes a very small piece of root for it to be back. And it will over winter both in and out of water.

Then they’re definitely my kind of plant! They’re in a spot that’s always moist so they should be fine waterwise, they just don’t look as lovely as they used to. I’m sure once the canna and bee balm I’ve planted in that bed come up and it’s a little less bare things will look better. I can also add more irises (and treat them a bit more gently this time!). Do you think they’ll bloom next season? What got me wondering is after I planted them I noticed a small clump of foliage in a side bed in a different location that looks like Siberian Iris. I probably got them when I thinned out bulbs from my parents‘ last year, so they made it through the winter. They haven’t flowered yet and I don’t recall seeing any buds, but I was a few feet away from them.