Hi, Mine have been blooming here in Northern California for a week or two. I remembered to cut back the leaves as the flowers are so short. I love this Iris. It is so easy and so beautiful between rain storms. I looked on the dates of my pictures over the years and most of them are dated November, but there were a couple of January pictures. So November is when it usually blooms here. My holiday treat is going to be blooms from Haemanthus deformis I purchased from Rhoda and Cameron a number of years ago. I am so excited! Also the first of the Romuleas are blooming, R. hallii and one of my pots of Romulea bulbocodium. It seems early for the latter but I haven't looked at my records. And there is a Lachenalia viridiflora blooming and more Massonias and Narcissus cantabricus and N. romieuxii and of course Cyclamen. Mary Sue