#bearded irises

[horsesarecreatures]

Anyway aren't these gorgeous? The varieties I ordered are 'Calm Sea', 'Bollywood', 'Blue Trill', 'Repertoire', and 'Advanced Degree', plus I got 'World Premiere' and 'Gambling Man' as extras by the nice ebay seller. I figured I might have better luck with Irises than some of the other things I planted this year because they love dry, well drained soil. I currently have 3 other types of irises there: some plain looking but free siberian irises I got last year through a gardening facebook group, some Louisiana Irises planted by the original owner of the property who was a native plant enthusiast, and a teeny, tiny bearded iris that I bought from China from an ebay seller when I was 13 and took over a month to arrive, survived that long shipping process + being transplanted into almost pure sand, but has seemed to have gotten permanently stunted and has never bloomed or grown larger despite coming back year after year. That plant is a curiosity to me and I'm not sure I'll ever see it bloom before I die and/or sell the house, but it managed to survive Hurricane Sandy, so it can stay.

Now these rhizomes are a much more mature size than that only other bearded Iris I bought 13 years ago (that one was literally only an inch), so I'm hoping that they have stored enough energy for the plants to not just survive but also bloom and produce more rhizomes. I could use a shore house gardening win this year, as my sunflowers got eaten by rabbits, the peony tubers won't come up until next year, and my cosmos and marigold seeds had a very low germination rate, resulting in some windswept plants here and there, rather than the dense bed of flowers that I wanted.

[mote-historie]

1830s Bearded Irises by Pierre Joseph Redouté, Watercolor over graphite on parchment prepared with white ground.

Thaw Collection

[es-oh-bfo-em]

[poop-me-a-flower]

Grandmother’s irises are blooming!

This is an intermediate bearded iris with a plicata pattern, probably bred in the 70’s or 80’s. Wish I could ask her what the label said when she bought them. Might be “Hemstitched” or “Rare Edition” but we’ll never really know for sure.

[ourfag]

ive had my fill of “first meeting when theyre 25 years younger” aus im moving on to “first meeting when theyre 25 years older” aus

[pelcrow]

"You and I were born like the breaking day. All our seasons, all our green Septembers burn away."

[ainawgsd]

My irises being dramatic today

[hyssopandbee]

Dreaming of flowers in December...

[sunshinesight]

This year's crop of irises…

[crudlynaturephotos]

[nemospecific]

Only the most powerful of wizards can pull off deelyboppers.

Cupid would appreciate it if Chemistro would give him some warning before gesticulating so grandly, though

[imagine0enigami]

Good morning from my one and only to bloom this year.

[iris-bllues]

Raspberry Blush 💗

[poop-me-a-flower]

Lovely irises spotted blooming in a neighbor’s yard.

[b-blushes]

also 2nd variety of bearded irises have flower stalks now, and my dwarf rose is about to bloom!

[wherekizzialives]

The Small Things Spreading Joy: February 2024