Kathleen, who lives on the coast while I live inland near the mountains, wrote: >My own Iris unguicularis doesn't flower until later in the winter. Is >someone with an earlier-flowering clump interesting in trading or >selling a start from an early flowering clump to me? I don't think it's so much the clone that determines the flowering time of I. unguicularis as the climate. I have two clones here, and neither flowers before the end of December. I also have the closely related (perhaps a subspecies) Iris cretensis, which flowers later too. One of mine, I. unguicularis 'Walter Butt', is a popular clone and produces flowers intermittently from late December to mid-March. I suspect the flowering time is determined by when the plant is watered. Those reported to flower in the eastern United States would have received summer water, while mine and perhaps Kathleen's would not. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA