My irises have started

Summer Olympics TB very wet.

Wish this historic opened yesterday instead of today in that rain. HIPS is trying to get a good pic of this. Well this pic will have to do until another bloom opens up.

Clarence TB opened today too.

Butterfly Wings maiden bloom, an historic.

Chickee modern MTB bloomed.

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Frontier Marshall historic TB.

Now Full House is a recent historic and is meant to have 4 standards and 4 falls. Getting them all was not happening today so two shots will be shown. Maiden bloom.

Second photo.

Jesse's Song modern TB maiden bloom.

Los Angeles historic TB very tattered by yesterday's storm. Maiden bloom.

Princess Beatrice historic Pallida type TB.

Rajah Brooke historic TB maiden bloom.

Pink iris from Carroll Gardens back in the early 1980's we got this and they called it Raspberry. Can find no such named historic so I am still calling this Raspberry but adding noid to it until I discover it's real name if possible. It is tall and lovely and so I am keeping it noid or not.

Summit Sunrise by (Jorgensen, 2003)30",ML,TB. Maiden bloom.

Syrian Jewel modern AB maiden bloom.

Syrian Jewel . is gorgeous

Mainer,
I am amazed at how many beautiful iris you have! It would be impossible to pick a favorite. Do you have any photos of your whole garden? Would love to see that!
Sherry

Yes, yes please I would love to see a landscape shot of how you use so many great iris.
Teresa

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.

Maltese cross right now only have a few SDB's blooming for it is a zone colder than under the appletree.

Another triangle of the Maltese cross has IB's blooming in it now.

Pathway under the apple tree with a few SDB's blooming. Later I will try to get a good shot of the raised wooden square beds. There is a lower front part that used to be an old farm barn and woodshed and big boulders were used for foundations and so I have to work around the stones. I uses railroad ties to keep the grass at bay and built four square sections out of wood. I take pictures standing up most of the time just walking around the wooden structures or sitting on them to take shots of little irises such as loudmouth for the path is sunken and the irises are above it. If I took a picture straight on you would see Dad's junk around his shed and the that is not pleasant. I prefer to look at the old horse pasture instead.

Pasture from appletree.

Okay house view complete with hole in front of my iris garden under the appletree.

I'm sure your garden will be fantastic after everything is fixed. The Maltese cross was a neat idea.

The areas that you do have to work with are beautiful. The rest will be beautiful again when the other work is finished. I'm enjoying all of the pictures.

it is beautiful .
gardens are never finished there a work in progress
i like to play checkers with my plants so I am always moving things around

Thanks everyone for the encouragement. Have some more blooms that opened today. First is Explicit by Ghio, 2005 22" EM TB. Maiden bloom.

Rheingauperle by Goos & Koeneman 1924 36" M TB. Maiden bloom.

Laurie your veriscolor Candystriper is blooming today.

Ginger by R. Schreiner Reg and Intro 1953 30" ML TB. Maiden bloom.

Ginger again.

Gold Of Orphir by Austin R 1956 40", ML TB. Maiden bloom.

Missus Bee modern MTB maiden bloom

Quaker Lady by Farr 1909 30",M TB. Maiden bloom.

Monsignor by Vilmorin 1907 25",IB bloomed today. Last year I moved it to the raised beds and it is doing beautifully. Very vigorous.

Sable Night by (Cook 1952) 35" EM TB DM 1955

Telling this apart from Sable is going to be the beard. Both have pbf. Sable Night has a dark almost black like beard while Sable has a blue beard. Sable is slightly taller, 37" and also is by Cook, 1938 EM TB.

Laurie your Lavendacea by Van Houtte 1854 M, TB bloomed for the first time today. It's lovely.
There is a yellow glow at the top of the standards.

Changing Times is a recent historic TB by Shreiner Intro 1977.

Last bloom to open today is Mother Earth a modern TB.