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Just wanted to chat for a bit about irises and IDing them with John Q Gardening Public/DGer friends here.
One of the problems folks get into with irises is that the very best time to sell them is when they are dormant. Which means they are not blooming. For irises, the only way to ID them is for them to bloom. Without the bloom, most look exactly to nearly identical.
there are already threads in this iris forum speaking to the problem we've had with disreputable sellers taking advantage of this foliar confusion. A plant worth a penny is sold under the name of a plant worth $20, the error is not discovered until the plant blooms, anywhere from 10 months to 3 years later, by which time the seller is long gone. That issue has been addressed already.
It's important for y'all to know that reputable growers are in this forum. Members of the American Iris Society are present here. They understand the frustration each of us has when faced with an iris blooming the wrong color, i.e., it's the wrong iris. I have over 500 irises, and I found 3 blooming in the 2007 beds that were mislabeled by a top grower. It happens. I'm super duper careful and it still happens to me with my own transplants.
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