Irises

My Irises are blooming very well this year, with plenty of flowers on each plant.
With all that wind I'm amazed their brittle stems didn't snap off. 

Here is Mum's iris Beaumonde, registered back in 1985.
Its awards are : HC (1983), Merton Calvert Award (1984), AM (1985)

and her lovely unnamed one which grows vigorously in my garden, which Barry Blythe kindly sent me after she died.

I don't think I have ever bought an iris, I could always get some rhizomes from mum's collection and bring them down to my garden. They are such a spectacular flower and I can see why she liked to create new ones as a hobby.
 The only ones I can put a name to in this group are Cameo Wine at the bottom left, and (using google) the top left is possibly Love Is All Around.

The plain old fashioned purple one which flowers early, is one I haven't seen bloom this year. Maybe there are others I have forgotten too.