Blooming Today...

THE FIRST ONE IN THE THREAD LOOKS LIKE IT HAS [SWEETER THAN WINE] IN ITS GENE POOL, WAS POSTED 5-12-04 AT IO:14 ON YOUR THREAD.

the ph of soil dosn't change color of iris you had a seed pod and missed it and it droped seeds.you now have a cross of your iris you planted whitch makes it the mommy and only the bees know "whos the daddy" but its a differnt iris,we call them critters / In reply to mellisa 221/

oops meant shelly 221

lol thanks Tazzy! I figured as much.. it just didnt quite make sense to me about the PH. awww well I have the B+B's to thank then. :o)

Thanks Tazzy, I'll look that one up

mine are just staring-now all we need is NO MORE RAIN so I can walk out and see each one-Thankz BERT and everyone I ever trade with-this is going to be an amazing BLOOMING yr.

another?????? berts first co-op i lost all track of whats what!

close up

group photo

Is this Michael Paul???

extreme close up

puttin on the ritz maybe?

a mini peach

another

another mini! so cute they are :)
Its too too tooooooooo wet to get to the others
-sigh-

notmartha...what is the little blue flower under the dwarf white? The color combination is perfect! Great pictures, looks like you got alot of rain!

its bronze ajuga-rain rain and then more rain!!!

heres the puddle-well part of it-it now goes the length of the yard and was running across the driveway!!

NotMartha, does that puddle happen every rainy season?
If so have you thought of digging the area out a bit and putting in a "dry creek bed"?....during the non-rainy times it would be a lovely collection of rocks, and plants....and when it's raining it would turn into a temporary pond.
This worked beautifullt for some friends of ours....very pretty at all times of the year now.

Don't ya just hate it when complete strangers try and tell you how to landscape YOUR yard???? :-)

Great thread, I've had the same ever enlarging group of iris for years: a marvelous purple, an old fashioned purple and yellow combo, a truly yellow yellow, a glorious huge white one I got in a trade and this no-name blue that some bee helped along. I think. lol.

I've plenty of white and yellow ones to trade when splitting time comes around. And it's high time I split some of them.

Dori,

Don't tell me that are "FAKE" pink flamingo's in your pond???????????

Bert thats my BD presents from my MIL -their antiques! I didnt even know what to say!! ;)

I had dayme and kegan stick them out there when their feet just happened to be MUD up past their ankles!!

One year we put a duck decoy in there and had a pair of mallards lant there! LOL

In the winter we have used the pond for skating

Yes i have suggested several times that we make a REAL pond there!

Melissa, Going My Way and Before The Storm above, are to DIE FOR!!! Outstanding-ly gorgeous!
Karen in NC

Right Already

I haven't been able to post pics in forever it seems!


Hidden World

Melissa,
Your iris are exquisite! Keep the colors coming....

Oh WoW!!! :-)
I'm JEALOUS!! ;-)
Absolutely gorgeous...ALL of them.

May a newbie join in? I find it quite daunting to try to identify the iris in my yard, but wanted to post this 3' tall beauty I photographed yesterday (I only have the one small grouping of it). Does anyone know what it might be?

No clue, but it's gorgeous! Welcome to DG!!

I don't know what it is, but I'm collecting historicals. Want to trade??? I have about 20-30 extra colorful ruffled TB to share Send me an email.

Thank you for sharing your thread, Melissa! :)

Wanda, you have me curious about all 4 of the iris groups I have, as some may be very old since they were transplanted from my fiance's boyhood home. I'll let ya know what I find out!

Painted Cloud

Storm Center

Mary Francis

Can anyone tell me the names of these?

or this one ?

I have alot blooming now but don't know any of the names?

This one hasn't bloomed yet this year.

This is my favorite.

and one last unknown one.

This one is Batik