"Sid" wrote in message ...
Is this unusual? I've a yellow bearded iris that's grown taller than I've
ever seen this type before. It's 44" high and has 5 blooms on one stem.
The blooms are truly enormous.

It's on an east-facing bed, stony fairly unnourished soil, except this
flower bed is right outside the back kitchen door and where we've lately
been emptying the teapot!

It seems to be a good year for Tall Bearded Irises, we have some that have
never flowered before that are this year. Friends report the same, with one
that has grown into a large clump but never flowered. They are now searching
for the name as they had forgotten they had ever bought one of that colour.

Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.