Cult: bloom report

Hi everyone,
I have been so busy in the garden that I haven't been to active in the message department.  A quick update:  We are still experiencing peak bloom, the weather has cooled down and has been cloudy.  It is May 3rd, typically the day we close the garden but it looks like bloom will extend into June this year!  The seedling bed has been a lot of fun this year, just the other day I was walking out and I saw it, a variegated flower on a variegated foliage plant.  Of course it was a TB bloom and the stalk was only about 7 inches high, but heh you gotta start somewhere.  For my bloom report:  everything is blooming.  AMERICAN EAGLE is looking incredible in this cool weather, icy blue, wow!  HEARTBREAK HOTEL is doing the same, looks like a much, much improved CELEBRATION SONG only more vivid.  The guest iris beds have some great stuff in them, PRINCESS CAROLINE DE MONICO looks great along with CLASSIC SUEDE, SPLASHITICATA, BOYSENBERRY BUTTERCUP and a ton of unnamed seedlings.  The future of iris is definitely looking bright.  Got a look at BROKEN DREAMS right next to SANTA and HEAVEN.  All fun iris with nice color and form.  All of Schreiner's last year intros that we have are blooming.  SERENE MOMENT looks the best followed closely by IV'E GOT RHYTHM.  DOUBLE BUBBLE has incredible ruffles and MIDNIGHT OIL is just too darn black.  I am having a good time with a seedling of ours that is a reverse ameona SA that is darker than crowned heads on top.  It is out of KATHLEEN KAY NELSON X G-32-A so of course the branching and bud count is great, 13 buds four branches a spur and terminal.  That's it for now, have fun at convention, my turn is next year.
Mike Sutton - In iris heaven and literally running from flower to flower.
 
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