On this topic, those in the U.S. who live near a Costco might be interested to hear that last night when we were there I found copies of a Timber Press book published last year entitled _Irises: A Gardener's Encyclopedia_ by Claire Austin for only $29.95 (instead of the list prices of $49.95 or £35.00). It even has a forward by some guy named James W. Waddick of Kansas City, Missouri. The flap says it contains 1100 color photographs, and the book is divided into sections of Bearded, Beardless, and Bulbous Irises and further divided into chapters kind of like the categories Mary Sue has listed: Bearded Irises (of various heights, etc.) Aril Arilbred Siberian Laevigata Japanese Louisiana Pacific Coast Spuria Other Beardless Species (including Crested) Interspecies Hybrids Reticulata Dutch, Spanish, and English Junos I haven't had a chance to look through it all yet, but so far it looks good. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USA, USDA Zone 10a On May 3, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > Susan and I continue to work on our wiki Iris pages as we have > time. We > have been splitting them up and making separate pages for the > different > groups but keeping a link to where they can be found on the main > page. All > of this is very time consuming. So far we have: > Belamcanda <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ > Belamcanda> > Beardless Irises > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > Crested Irises > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > Hermodactylus > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > Juno Irises <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ > JunoIrises> > Pacific Coast Irises > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ > PacificCoastIrises> > Reticulata Irises > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > and of course the main Iris page > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… >