The first one to bloom is Caracal, then Immortality, then His Royal highness (?). It was sold to me by Hirts as " Persian Berry" but apparently it was wrong. Interestingly, I saw Breezway Iris Garden has the exact same situation as I. Their Persian Berry has exact the same bloom as mine, so they put a question mark in their website. I put a petal of my bloom in this blog.
My family went out of town in the weekend. We came home at late night. The first thing after putting my bag off, I went to my garden. It is so good to see irises bloom, especially new plant. There is always anxiousness in waiting to see a new bloom. Will the plant misplaced? Will it look like the picture? What the fragrance the blooms bare? I am so happy to see the Copatonic iris bloom. Also High Desert. The two are received as gifts from an online friend in this platform. My "old" plants also bloomed. One plant Galacia won't bloom this year, after last years bore problem and relocation, it needs time to settle. Catmint is very good compliment plant. I am also happy that I bought a pink catchfly plant while it was on sale at Home Depot. The pink flowers are dainty.
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Daffodils will fade out soon. The ones still in bloom are intrigue, dick wilden, Salome, Sr Winston Churchill, altruist ( not in its best form), Carice, Blushing lady ( blooming late), smiling twin (color fading), and a few no IDs.
The fox glove plant I have increased a lot after winter. Japanese Iris is growing, and snap dragons came back and strong. Only pot of tulips has lasted longer than usual thanks to the cool weather.
I got a new plant Geum Red-Dragon on sale 12.71 at bluestones. As a local customer, I was told the cutting variety 3.5 off coupon is not applicable as the plant is already an on sale. Next time I will visit another local garden (H) to check out their geum plants.
I also bought 6 bare roots of astrantia star-of-beauty and start-of-billions from Blooming Bulbs. The bare roots look healthy with new shoots. No plant guide was in the package. I googled online and it says to plant the crown 1-2in below surface. I double it might be too deep and nevertheless did as the online guide says. It is very cold this afternoon, rains and hails.
My seedlings of zinnia were not very lucky. I put them outside yesterday but the afternoon hails killed two, afternoon rains rot two. Now I only have 7 seedling plants.
This morning I inspected my garden and this is what I found. One of my poor Clarence was bitten to death! This poor iris was bought last year. It went through rot issue last November, and again rot issue this March, I just saved them in my last post. But now finally has been bitten into 4 pieces.
I still have the other half, thbks to its big rhizome size, I was able to split it into half during the second rot rescue. This half was left intact yesterday night because I put some plastic protection on it. See photo below.
Nearby these is another iris was also bitten yesterday night.
This one is small, also was bitten by animal before, but survived and just sending out three new fans. The biggest fan was beheaded, but still has two small fans attached. Usually such big bites will significantly set back the iris growth. Let's see if this one will survive or not.
My saving method is to put plastic protections around small irises. I will show a photo tomorrow.
