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- Our Guarantee
We are a licensed nursery so we are inspected by the WA Dept. of Agriculture at the beginning of shipping season which allows us to send to all of the 48 continuous states, yes, including California. As far as other locations, feel free to ask and I can check.
**If an iris blooms wrong, please send us pictures of what bloomed for you instead and we can work on getting you a new one with the next dig season.
When we start digging, we'll go in order of the orders received. We plan to start digging in July and done in September. We dig the biggest of the ones available; however, the size varies between rhizomes. All rhizomes are trimmed, cleaned, bleached. and labeled. If there are any problems with your order, please contact us upon receipt of your order. We recommend planting the received rhizomes as soon as you receive them. If you live in an early winter climate, we recommend you plant as soon as possible so the rhizomes can get established before the first frost. If you live in a harsh summer climate, like us, we recommend waiting a little while to put them in the hot sun without protection. We start receiving them in July from places so we found potting them for awhile works great and then take them to the garden once the temperatures start to cool down.
**Whereas iris survive fine out of the ground for awhile, the longer it takes to plant them, the longer it takes for them to grow well and to bloom. I've had irises even winter in a shed that grew the next year - some a little and a few that even bloomed. However, if planted immidiately, a lot of them bloomed the first year.
- Shipping
Our shipping season is July and August. Rhizomes are not sealed in packaging until the day of shipping. We use USPS Ground Advantage and having tracking numbers. If you'd like us to use something else to get them faster, please let us know and we can figure out the shipping to do that.
- Substitutes and Refunds
We will never substitute any rhizomes in your order without your permission. Irises are on a first-come, first-serve basis. If for any reason, you need to cancel your order, it may be done up until the shipping process has begun. There will be a 5% fee on all cancelled orders due to unrecoverable expenses. We are not responsible for loss due to winter, soil conditions, or any other conditions out of our control.
- Bonuses
We see bonuses as a thank you to all of our customers. We deeply appreciate each customer and their order. We send bonuses with orders as a sign of gratitude on orders over $50. We do our best to inspect each invoice and pick bonuses that we think each customer would appreciate. Please let us know in the comments if you prefer the same as ones you've ordered or want a surprise.
How many named irises are there?
Why is it a NOID?
Did you know that Iris Wiki has over 80,000 fact sheets of named irises?
I was in shock when I first spent time on the Iris Wiki sight and I now use it all of the time. It is the American Iris Societies Iris Encyclopedia and the information is endless.
"Don't judge a book by it's cover" goes for irises too, "Don't determine an iris by a picture"
Iris Wiki has also taught me that if you don't know an irises name for sure, then there is a good chance you won't be able to figure it out, even with over 300,000 pictures on the site. Why? For starters, AI but won't go there. Cameras through the years have changed and so have the colors of their pictures. The lighting can make a huge a difference and the list goes on
So why being sold as a NOID?
1) Received it as a NOID
2) Iris bloom was not as described when purchased
3) Name for it was misplaced, lost, etc.
4) Over abundance of a named iris sold at a lower price - lots of those,
*I have had a love for irises for 25 years. Through the years, I bought irises that I thought were beautiful and didn't keep the names and to be honest, who knows if they bloomed correctly. In 2018, when we purchased a pet boarding facility, I took 100's of rhizomes with me but since the kennel was already in operational and I was the one running it, my rhizomes spent a winter in laundry tubs in a room in a metal building. All of them and my irises I purchased the first year after we moved here were planted by some college students that were nice enough to "remove the tags" for me if they had them.
Since then, I've left tags on, done mapping, etc. but even with that, there is still irises in the garden that aren't the ones that you purchased. Sometimes it's a mistake, that can easily happen to anyone. It should rarely happen but often it is because irises aren't verified, people guess, or some just don't care.
My priority is named irises that are sold to be verified and pictures documented of each cultivator in Airtable which is like a spread sheet. Those that aren't verified are going into various NOID bags.
Also, I have tons that I've grown trying to find a few I lost or just love to multiply that will be in these NOID bags.
Examples of some named that may be in a bag: Society Lady, Immortality, Standing Proud, Autumn Tryst, Slovak Prince, Abiqua Falls, and the list goes on.