CULT: HYB: black late spring freeze resistance?

[questions at the end]
Several years ago, Jeff Walters, who was in Utah? Nevada? <?> at the time, and I exchanged some of our best survivors. Jeff was also in an area with late spring freeze damage, but much colder winters, sometimes with snow, and much drier in general.
When it became apparent that what thrived for me, didn't for him, and vice versa, we stopped trading.
Except for a very retro near black red that I've been unable to identify, purchased from one of our first rhizome sales as "CHERRY SMOKE" which it obviously is <not>. Henceforth referred to as "NOT cherry smoke".
It is the most late spring freeze proof iris I grow, or was for years (haven't had many late spring freezes that were really bad for several years until the doozy this year! so haven't gotten to evaluate more recent stuff).
It sets bee pods freely here, producing offspring not as nice as it is, but has refused to set pods with anything I've tried. Jeff brought some <really> cute stalks from a cross of it with HELLO DARKNESS, and sent me some seeds from NOT CS X ROMANTIC EVENING, too young to see bloom yet, but thriving so far.
So here's the question: For those of you who had severe late freeze damage this spring or maybe went to Oklahoma convention where freeze damage wasn't quite as bad as farther east and north, are there any black or dark red irises that bloomed normally after the freeze? 

Jeff, you got pix of those cute babies you could post?

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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