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Pacific coast iris order just arrived from Leonine Iris

Cori Ann - H0uzz violated my privacy

7 years ago

Anyone ever order from Leonine Iris before? My first pacific coast Iris order from Leonine Iris just arrived and I'm quite excited to add these to my garden! They arrived very well packaged and all look like they are in great condition. Detailed planting and care instructions were emailed, saving paper and making it easy to refer back to later if needed. I will update with photos once they are all blooming. :)

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User
7 years ago
How exciting! I've never heard of Leonine. Their online catalog is closed :-(

Where do their prices begin on PCIs? I notice they will purchase from a customer a PCI they don't have. Neat.

What did you choose?
Cori Ann - H0uzz violated my privacy
Original Author
7 years ago
Hi Irisgal. The website isn't the easiest to navigate... but it seems like they have the biggest selection of pacific coast iris that I have found! I was really impressed with the packaging, instructions and all the information on the site. I like that it started out as a small home business and that they are willing to trade too.

Here's a direct link to their pricelist with photos. http://www.leonineiris.com/l9i_downloads/2016_Leonine_Iris_Price_List_with_Photos.pdf

You get to that link by clicking on the rhizome sales, then ordering info page.

Even though the online catalog is closed for the season, you may still be able to purchase a few if they have any left. I discovered Leonine late this season and even though I ordered a month or two ago, there were a lot that were sold out already.

There are A LOT of exotic looking irises that I will try to get first dibs on next year! I have a purple, red, pink and white theme going on in my front yard so this year I stuck with purple PCIs. There are A LOT of other colors though so don't think that all they have is purple since that's all I bought. :) Here's photos of what I ordered.

Deepening Shadows

Lunar Eclipse

Night Editor

San Andreas

And the photo of Age of Chivalry won't upload for some reason, but it's purple too. :)

Mine won't bloom properly until next year, but I will circle back and update this post once they do. :)
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Oh my gosh. My order from Rockytop just arrived in my afternoon mail. First off I was surprised at the really big box as I had only ordered 15 iris and that included the 5 Special Bonus that you qualify for when buying anything else. I bought 4 of their 2010 intros- BLUEBERY FUDGE MAGNIFICENT MASTERPIECE BEVS BABE BACKDRAFT Six others of various year intros- POLESTAR CABERET ACT DONACHCLONEY FABULOUS ONE MAGICAL REALISM PERRYMONT I got 6 extra special bonus iris even thought I only qualified for 5. He had told me they were out of the first i choose so I picked an alternate. But both my original choice and the alternate are both in here. I have- LAKE TANEYCOMO ROYAL VESTMENTS MACHERALON JAMAICAN BREW SURFERS DREAM BEWITCHING HOUR Then there are 8 more bonus iris. I haven't even gotten a chance to look them up yet. I have only afew and I mean afew single rhizomes and those are quite large. Many doubles and those are larger than other places sending singles and almost as large as the singles. Then some are triple rhizomes and some clumplets were they are all attached and some have even more babies coming out of the sides. Also large. Not like he needed to send the doubles or more bewcause they are small, they are not small at all. So now I know why he needed the really large box. I will be taking pictures of some of these and will have more to say about all the extras. I am simply astounded at what I recieved today. Just unbelievable. You couldn't do better. I have never seen anything like it. Just past fabulous. I am really happy to say the least :-))
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Nice! They did have a huge selection. When I finish removing a vine I'll have a good semi-shade location. That's at least a month project.

Hmmm, maybe if I switch browsers I can download the file. Thanks for the link.

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