Been a long time since I have been on the site and even longer since I have posted. This one caught my eye. I too have many irises who are unidentified this year thanks to magpies and puppies pulling tags out. Probably a few I mixed up years ago. The iris in the first picture looks a lot like one I have called Lullaby Of Spring. It satrted blooming this year for the first time about 5 or 6 days ago. I think it is about 3 years old. It is a fairly tall plant and has about 3 blossoms on each stem. Many of my irises are blooming for the first time this year and I have well over 350, 2 years old and older. Lost a lot this year thanks to all the moisture.:(

I don't know old irises at all. The top one is really delicate. Here's the link for hips. Lots of pretty irises! Renee Here is a link that might be useful: HIPS gallery

The beard colour is significantly different, even allowing for photographic differences. The falls on CA have a midline stripe rather than a wider wash of darker colour. This could be attributed to age of bloom and light factors while photographing. The CA in the linked photo has no obvious haft marking. I would think that would be the most conclusive difference, as yours is clearly marked. You are correct to think it is likely to be an iris readily available locally. You also should consider the time of bloom and height of the bloom stalk. These should be fairly consistant for the particular cultivar, in your area. It might also be worth watching out for it in other peoples gardens for comparrison. These are 2 pretty little SDB's that you are growing. Why not simply enjoy them without their names? Spend some time looking at SDB's in catalogues and online and you will soon discover the extraordinary similarity between many named irises. Photography can also be very misleading, making the same bloom look quite different from a different angle, and 2 vastly different blooms look quite the same.

They are horticulturally distinct (for the most part), but all azaleas are rhododendrons biologically. Yours are azaleas. They are most likely evergreen types that lose their leaves in a colder climate. True deciduous azaleas such as the native American species look very different from your plants. By now azalea varieties probably number in the 1000's. Many of them are very similar in appearance. So any attempt to identify your particular variety from a photo would be pure guessing. Someone may offer a name, but there really is no telling if it is correct.