Irises: My irises have started, 1 by Mainer

Mainer wrote:
You really would not.

We put in a Sequoyah Woodburner with gasefication system and the front lawn is a mess and the iris garden is a mess. We have a huge hole in the cellar being fixed where they lugged out the oil tank and brought in a new one only it would not fit so a bulldozer dug up everything not even a foot away from my plants. We finally this week got the hole filled with broken boulders that were dug up and cement blocks in place.

Dad is going to finish pouring the cement and build a stairway into the cellar hole. Then a frame and door unit goes in to cover the opening. We have a big mess of mud just starting to turn into lawn.

My irises are in the lower level of a banking under an apple tree surrounded by a fence that needs painting but it did protect them from the bulldozer. They are a work in progress for no formal arranging has been finished. It was started in 2006 after a flooding rain happened and then last year I decided to rearrange stuff to try arilbreds so nothing is finished or has clumped up into a nice iris garden yet.

I did plant tall by the fence, IB or BB in the middle and SDB or MDB in front by the path where the stones are not yet leveled with gravel to keep them straight. The stones slide down the hill at the moment for it has not been fixed. The iris are only 1 rhizome or two spaced way too close together for the moment but will be put in their proper places as soon as I heal up.

Weeds are everywhere except where I intend to take a photo because I have been not allowed to garden for three weeks medically speaking.

Our driveway in the front lawn area met the same bulldozer so wooden parts of the front border are being replaced after the piping went into the cellar. Plants were healed in other spots to survive the bulldozer and need to be put back.

We will be warm this winter without paying for oil for the payments for the Sequoyah is half of our monthly oil bill until it is payed for so the gardens will be last priority this summer. I hope to be off medical restrictions in three more weeks and then I intend to woodstain the wooden raised beds and put plants back where they belong. My hubby has been replacing the rotten wood for the winter was a rough one, things no longer are painted or woodstained.

Spot pictures are best right now but I can give you an idea that my Dad is messy, mechanical messy and so we have spots of beauty and spots I wish we could place a fence in front of and place silouette cut outs to hide his junk like broken snowmobiles and things in the field and a boat complete with lifepreservers in front of my garden on the lawn. That works and I have fun in that so I try not to concentrate on what I can not fix and most of the time it works.

We have bird feeders in my appletree outside the fence line so most of the time the birds leave my irises alone but once in awhile they peck my irises.

This is the Sequoyah and the mound of dirt that used to be our lawn. This is by the veggie garden and fruit orchard.