Friends, I'd like to respond to the above statement that my business is scarey. We are a small family owned business, a David among the Goliaths and while our prices may be a little higher than some, our rhizomes, new and old, have been referred to by some as the best and freshest they have ever received. I am hybridizing for new iris and introduced three irises last year. We also are finding that it takes time for irises to adapt to San Diegos temperate weather. I am a past president and member of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Iris Societies and the American Iris Society. And by all means enjoy irising !! Sincerely, Ted and Rose Howse

What hath that enabling Aliska wrought here lol? Look at all those vids I missed! Good job finding them and posting the links, will try to watch as many as possible. I'm rather new to iris, and last year got an insert in my gilberthwild catalog for Cooley's and wanted to order some but things got away from me and just got two from Am Meadows instead. I don't know how I managed to remember the name and think to look on youtube. Some crazed poster (no offense intended) alerted me to the joy of Siberians. Ha ha. Now I'm getting an order ready after just ordering a few more bearded iris from Wild's. I know they don't have the best rating, but I've had pretty good luck with them so far. P.S. (ducking). I don't plant mine 2' apart, planting spots are at a premium in my small yard. So my punishment is that I have a huge clump that are too big for where I put them and will have to divide them. I think I'll put them all where it doesn't matter so much and move something a little less robust but colorful there. Nobody told me when I started all this craziness that I'd not only be planting things, but digging half of them up and moving them around.

Mark, We're coming to a crawl now. Gypsy was introduced I'd say pre 1947, I don't have the '49 Iris Checklist to find a description. The first child or offspring from it in the 1959 checklist was registered in 1950. There are tons of Gypsy Somethings out there, but "Gypsy" is very old. Approval '95/96 Graeme Grosvenor TB 38" S/pale blue F/white edged pale blue, darker blue hafts, yellow beards tipped blue. This is an Australian iris. Graeme lives in Dural, New South Wales, Australia May be hard to find a picture of this, since probably not to many made it to the states. Cheers, Randy

Hello, I am very sad that bluejiris decided not to ship international orders any more. They have some beautiful varieties that I can not find here in Europe. I wish you all a happy new year. Greetings from Germany Anja