There is usually a very fine display of these Irises at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing each spring in the native area and I think Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden has a collection too although I never seem to get up there to see them when they are in bloom. Iris douglasiana is native where I live and is well loved. It's curious to hear that it is the species that gives the hybrids the handsome foliage since the foliage here often gets diseased and looks unsightly. Jenny Fleming, who has a very wonderful native garden in Oakland, California, once shared that she cuts all the foliage of her plants back to the ground in late summer after they have set seed. I started doing that with mine and my plants started looking a lot better. Otherwise over time they looked worse and worse. Some patches in the wild you just have to tune out the leaves and concentrate on the pretty flowers. I understood that the hybrids did better with some summer water. Some of the hybrids I have added to my garden have done well and bloom each year and others have died or skip years. A couple of them this year with our excessive rainfall look really healthy and others looked horrible all winter and only now that it appears that spring is on its way are looking better. I'm not sure what to make of any of this. Seed seems to germinate well on a lot of the ones I tried (both species and hybrids). I ended up with many pots of Iris tenax from NARGS seed for this reason and planted a bunch out this winter. Some died it looks like, but there are a few surviving and one in a pot that I didn't transplant has just bloomed and is very pretty. Will the ones in the ground need summer water? We have a wiki page for Pacific Coast Iris if Dan took pictures at Rancho Santa Ana and wants to share them with us. Mary Sue