Lovely littles, Jeanne!

Thanks Marilyn.

I made a mistake on the pink one. It is called Chanted instead of Charmed.

Yesterday I did get some weeding done. It's raining again this morning. We've had a chilly and wet spring.

So many beautiful pictures.
Evelyn Really glad the cold snap didn't hurt your blossoms.
Jeanne, Beautiful Orange, the Irises you sent, some were dug up by the Javelina right after I planted. I put them back in the ground and now I don't know what some of them were.
Here is a spectacular Orange or Pink that was in the box. Thank You very much
Just opening so not a very good photo

That orange sure is pretty. Let me see another picture of it when it is fully open and maybe I will be able to ID it for you. I will also look to see if I can find the list of the ones I sent you. I had a NOID orange and hope I still have it when my TB's start blooming. So far I have had 14 different SDB's bloom.

Gotta run. See ya later. Have a great day.

gardenglassgems said: That orange sure is pretty. Let me see another picture of it when it is fully open and maybe I will be able to ID it for you. I will also look to see if I can find the list of the ones I sent you. I had a NOID orange and hope I still have it when my TB's start blooming. So far I have had 14 different SDB's bloom.

Gotta run. See ya later. Have a great day.

Jeanne, I have the list. The only named Iris would be Pink Lace. There is an orange and a pink noid listed so it could be any of the three. It doesn't matter.
The photos are the only ones I have. I didn't photograph the Iris again. Just caught this unfurling from several different angles
Whatever it is, What a Beauty!

Great color!

After coming back from my first PT appointment today, DH and I spent a little time out in the garden, mostly deadheading irises and cutting dead stalks, but also checking on the tomatoes and liquid fertilizing them. (Let's say that DH put up the absolutely WRONG tomato cages for one pair of plants... instead of the cages that were right in the same bed, he used the broken/smashed/warped cages that were mangled when the tree came down over a year ago. )

I'll try to post some pics tomorrow, but among the finds today.... one of my white seedling irises was blooming, it looks like the gophers may have discovered the quartet of irises in one bed (LORD JEFF, I I STUTTER, LOVELY LOIS, PURPLE PEOPLE EATER) so I'm going to have to do something about that once I get my wrist working again, AND...

Remember how pleased I was that I thought I had finally gotten BUSY BEING BLUE and BYE BYE BLUES separated? Well, I was taking photos of the irises on the patio, and hey, these newly opened blooms look familiar, they are Space Age and look like BYE.... (currently blooming in another pot), but the pot in front of me was labeled BUSY.... I didn't examine the pot closely, so I don't know at this point if this is a labeling mistake or if that pot has both BUSY and BYE. (I do know that BUSY was blooming earlier in a pot in that general area... )

This wasn't the only labeling mistake (presuming that BUSY was a labeling mistake and not still mixed BUSY/BYE rhizomes). I discovered that I had PASSIONATE KISSES labeled as TITAN'S GLORY, and vice versa, but I put that down to a last minute pot switching the end of last summer, and I clearly screwed up the labels there. At least TITAN'S GLORY has PBF to help sort things out/confirm ID.

More tomorrow....

Yesterday my BFF came over and helped me get about 17 pots of Iris put into raised beds. Then we drove an hour to Menards to get 1 cu. ft. Miracle Grow garden soil for $2.50 a bag. We each got 10 bags. I think I will pick up 10 more when I am near a different Menards this afternoon.

These Iris just opened and are both unknown at the moment.
This one could be Immortality

Not sure what this one's name is but would really like to know.

You must really want to ID this iris. I think this is the third thread I've seen your pictures.
Possibly City Lights. Check the database for more images.

I know that I did not purchase City Lights but that's not saying that I didn't get it as a mistake for something else. Maybe I will have another bloom just like it with a name tag with it. Thank you for the suggestions Laurie. And you are right, I really do want to try to ID all my NOID Iris so that when I give them away, I can let the person know its name. But I have found locally, most people don't care about the names.

When I give my garden helper plants, the very first thing HE does is to discard the plant label. It drives me wild! But apparently there ARE people who don't care about the names. (That's not something I can understand for myself. Even my NOIDs get names... NOID1, NOID2, etc. )

All I did today (only because I had to step down to the patio to put out my garden helper's pay, as DH (after having been awake all night post yesterday's oral surgery) was unable to do so), was to deadhead a few patio irises. (If I had been able to also take down the camera and pruners with me, then I would have cut some dead stalks and taken a few pics, but this was still early morning, I hadn't had any Tylenol yet, and I felt like I was already tempting fate just getting *myself* down (and back up) those two steps. I did later take a zoomed picture out the back door, but that's not the same, and those dead stalks have to be edited out. )

GAME PLAYER is blooming today, and the presumed PAUL BLACK is looking like its name (though I didn't shuffle over to try to sniff it this morning). MAJOR ISSUE out along the main garden path is also now blooming, but that would have been yet more steps for me to traverse to look at (and I'm still leery of my knees and steps).

I have to say that the high performing stars of the garden this season have been BYE BYE BLUES (in 2 pots ), GLACIER POINT (ditto 2 pots, because I never divided/downsized it last summer), and EASTER CANDY (which had 3 blooms on one stalk today, and *that* was the picture I wanted to take, but I never got back out there to do so). But PAUL BLACK (similar to SAFFRON DRIFT earlier this season) is putting on a really nice display for being in a one gallon pot that gets too much shade. This makes me wonder if performance in a one gallon pot is a reliable predictor of overall performance in the garden.

Most of the general public don't realize that the different varieties have names. I always get told they have the purple one. I am educating people around here that there are little ones, not just talls.

I had a few precious minutes in the iris garden today. (DH is still not feeling well from his oral surgery, but he insisted on making me brunch, and he insists on doing some house cleaning today, as we are having someone come in tomorrow to look at a table of ours which needs refinishing.)

DH deadheaded for me (and I had him pick a few weeds, and cut a rose and a couple of iris stalks for me to bring inside - TITAN'S GLORY and LOVELY LOIS). Meanwhile I took pictures and looked around.

Pics will be posted in the 2024 Season thread.

The highlight of all this, was that while I was nosing around, I discovered some rhizomes coming up in the area where the gophers had pretty much devastated PEGGY SUE last season. I had rescued a precious few rhizomes last year, but they died to rot after I repotted them. So now I am in a quandry what to do here - risk leaving these rhizomes in place (gophers), or add them to the list of to-be-rescued irises (and if so, when, and will I be risking losing any rescued rhizomes to rot or drought or whatever, again?)? (There is also a very small possibility that these might be seedlings, but I really don't think so... I believe that I got any/all seed pods before they opened, and didn't drop any seeds. I think.)

So Happy Mother's Day to me, if this is really PEGGY SUE and I've got her back!

And Happy Mother's Day to all the moms here!

(Editing to add: I went and had a second look at the BAAP iris, and confirmed that it is BLACK LIPSTICK. So, a good day in the iris garden, even if it was very brief!)

Today I got a call from a classmate asking me if I was going to join them for breakfast in town. I had forgotten all about it. So I hurried up and got dressed and dashed to town. It was a nice visit with the 4 of us. Hopefully, next month we might be able to get a few more to join us.

I spent a lot of the afternoon outside. I took pictures of Iris blooms and spent some time trying to ID them. I finished putting grass clippings around the Iris in the 2 newly planted Iris raised beds. I pulled weeds here and there and finally finished pulling them from the Trampoline Bed.


My Iris blooms today.
I am trying to ID this one.

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Istanbul

Trying to ID this one too.

Weeding is never ending, now that it finally stopped raining and snowing.

No weeding today, raining again.

My bloom is almost done, so I've been dead-heading, clipping stalks, and removing brown leaves. There is always weeding, but I fear a lot of the weeds have already gone to seed, so it may be too late.
In a week, it will be time to do the post-bloom fertilizing for clumps I'm not going to dig in July.

The good thing about this forum is that we get to see the early bloom from areas warmer than us, and you get to see the bloom of areas cooler. Still, it's a sad time when it ends in your garden. You had some really nice blooms. Now you can make space for all your new ones.

I went out for a walk around the yard and found these new blooms.
Habit planted in ground

Habit blooming in a pot

Cornhusker

Emma's Laughter

Doctor Alan

Rosalie Figge

Molokini