My first iris bloom of 2005

it has been raining here for the past three days but I wanted to post a pic before it stopped blooming.
I got this one in a mixrd bag of bulbs from Wayside.

Wow Celeste! That's great!

Thanks I was excited because I have about four in bloom in different spots but they are so little and from a distance they just looked like really big Crocus and I was so excited when I saw they were actually iris.

more pics? purdy pleeeeaaase?!

I have a few more pics some are not iris though.

Here is another one of my bloomers.

Here is one more and please don't be mad because I am posting other than Iris.
MGH
If you want me to post pics of my other Iris from last year I will but I thought you wanted to see spring 2005 pics.

wow spring is on the way! great pics

I have one more of my little iris I took today.

Thank you, Notmartha

Celeste, Wow lucky you!
Push that Spring weather north, Pretty Please!

Gosh, I'm so jealous!! Thanks for the little taste of spring : ) we're in for another cold snap for the next week : (

Well, It is only in the low 50's and it keeps raining off and on so I don't know if it is as nice here as it is other places right now.I will send warm sunny thoughts your way!:) Send me some get rid of this Flu thoughts! My son had it last week and now I have it and I am a Grumpy old bag of Bones!
Sending warm sunny thought to Vicki in Kentucky too!

Celeste, I am not mad at all! I love to see all the blooms....glad to know I'm not the only one around here who has something blooming! LOL! My daffs haven't quite opened up yet, but I have a few crocus blooming. Your pics are beautiful! Sorry to hear you are sick though. We are all just getting over that flu. Hope you feel better soon and thanks for the photos!

Mendy

Here are my daffs:

Here is some of my crocus. Not a very good pic of them....

That is not a bad pic and those are pretty!

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Thanks for well wishes I feel a little better today and the Sun has come out so that in it self makes me Happy!

What a beautiful thing to have Iris blooming now in zone 7.

I though I'd mention Celeste that there is an Historic cultivar dated 1858 named "Celeste". It's for sale at

http://www.nichollsgardens.com/index.htm

My granddaughter's name is Celeste and she can't wait to see it bloom. Of course it will be a year since I just ordered it. :-)

Doss
That is cool.There seems to be alot of plants from the late 1800's named Celeste.My name must have been popular back then or their must of been a popular person named Celeste.I have seen several antique roses named Celeste but I don't have a link for them.Thank you for the link.
Celeste

Thanks for the info. I'm good at scouting plants up. I'll go look for a Celeste Rose. It is a lovely name. If I find a link I'll post it for you.

Here's a picture of the "Celeste" rose. Sadly, I could only find this one foreign site that sells it.

http://www.deleeuwroses.co.za/0125.htm

http://www.rosegathering.com/alphroses.htm
There are some listed on this page and apparently David Austin hybridized one in 1983 too but I couldn't find a pic the link didn't work for me.

http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/plant-rose.shtml

If you want to tag your little blue iris it is ( I Reticulata ) documented in Turkey in 1882.is woodland iris will bloom and do well in shade and the first iris to bloom it blooms with the crocuses has a bulb and not a rhizome .there are two sub species i don't know which one yours is #1
kalpakowskina #2 banlrana but the name i. reticulata is good for both in name tag or iris Show . you can google it and find out more .

thank you,
Tazzy

Thanks for the other links for the Celeste rose. I certainly wish I could just fly it over from Europe. It sounds lovely - except it's a Rugosa. Oh, those thorns!

Your I. reticulata's are Beautiful!
I So Look Forward to Those and Crocus.
They're the First Signs of Spring!

No reticulata's Yet Blooming but Close...
Crocus are Just Starting as Mendy Showed.

Are crocuses more of a shade-loving plant? Mine have been blooming for at least 2 or 3 weeks and most of them are gone now? Is that normal? Do they prefer cooler temps? We've been in the upper 50's to low 60's for the last week or so.

I have some in the sun and they bloom about two weeks max in sun or shade.

Very pretty! =)