Thanks Jim, I definitely associated it with you, there is very little reference around as to what species it is. I have various plants of Iris typhifolia, which can flower here as early as April, and repeat as late as August. None of them have given a really good show yet. However The plants I received as "Caitlin's Smile" are a blue spuria of modest size, absolutely upright, with a beaked capsule. I shall have to get better pictures of it for identification and sow seeds to see if it is a hybrid, and import some more Caitlin's Smile. Why can't nurserymen give the species names with the names of the cultivars??? -then I would have sorted out this several years ago!!! On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:08 PM, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: > >If Iris spuria Caitlin's Smile is as I think, > > > Dear Peter, > If the iris you refer to is 'Caitlin's Smile' then it is > > 'Caitlin's Smile' (James Waddick by Kevin Morley). This means > it is my seedling, but named and registered by Kevin. > > This is a pure Iris typhifolia, a relatively newly > introduced Siberian Iris species, not a spuria iris. It received an > Award of merit in 2011. Incidentally both Kevin and I have daughters > named Caitlin. It blooms very early. >