At all of the shows I also make designs, but I can’t say I did particularly well at any of these shows, including the shows prior to Iris shows.
I did win best in show at the Daffodil April show with this design that interpreted the song “Lady marmalade. “
Here are a couple other designs I’ve made so far this year interpreting themes Ferris Wheel, Cooking, Springtime.
That’s amazing, good for you! So many pretty irises.
Wow! Congrats. Those are some gorgeous blooms.
Those white irises in your first picture, the ones with the white top and the purple folding down, between the pink ones. What variety is that? Nanny used to grow those in front of her house.
If you mean those in center of this picture, that is ‘Moonlight Redevous’ a 2021 hybrid by Tom Johnson. Your grandmother didn’t grow this new one although there are many with this color pattern.
There are 80,000 registered iris.
It is here:
https://wiki.irises.org/TbKthruO/TbMoonlitRendezvous
If you like this color pattern, the one I recommend is ‘Gypsy Lord ‘ which is a stunning iris, similar to this with a bright orange beard.
https://wiki.irises.org/TbFthruJ/TbGypsyLord
This is one of several iris specialists I buy from, highly recommended:
Should I give them a little fertilizer?
Mine also don’t spread, but I’ve never put the seeds in compost. They just get thrown away and recycled in yard waste bags. So… I guess they may spread wherever that stuff gets taken.
That red poppy is to die for!
I actually drive around to view known poppy spots.
I know of only one perennial poppy planting now,
the big old orange ones here in my new town where many have old fashion gardens.
In my childhood seems like everyone had big orange poppies in their yards.
Just this morning we purposely drove by a community garden to see if their annual pink poppies were up, and they were. Wonderful!
That’s it! That’s the one Nanny grew. That picture jogged my memory. Thank you.
nah i wouldn’t – i would just move the lights closer. they should ideally be just a few inches away from the tallest plant in the tray.
Thanks! I moved the lights earlier today.
Thanks! I adore poppies, have only seen a few dense plantings of them around here. But there’s one house in our neighborhood that has a beautiful field of red poppies and every time I walk by I have to stop and gasp at them!
This is the first year we’ve gotten multiple blooms from ours, so fingers crossed they continue to do well & spread.
Some of my new Dahlias have sprouts!
Loving all the photos as the northern hemisphere comes into bloom!
We moved from the city last summer to one acre in a tiny Midwestern tourist town. This iris gets to live in full sun, and it is shocking how RED it is now!
In the city it was in partial shade and was more orange in color.
It is Iris fulva, the reddest of all irises.
We just moved to the country and I’m infatuated by the woods that are now mine. So many new plants! These are the tiny delicate violets that are blooming.
Violets are sweet. I was digging clumps of them out today, as they are invasive, but I do not really hate them. There are weeds I hate far more than these. And we have a lot of white violets and those are nice.
Are flower seeds just kind of a crapshoot? This is only my second year and I still don’t know much. I have some that just aren’t doing very much at all, like they’re barely sprouting. Some are from last year, some are new seeds, there are a few different types, so no commonalities really. They are 5 weeks old, they’ve been treated just like others in the same trays, they should be much better than they are. Of course I can just plant more and see if they grow, but I don’t understand why the first ones didn’t…
I actually think most of this years are smaller than last years seedlings at the same age. I planted them at 5 weeks old last year and no way can I plant these for a while yet.
crapshoot – yes! i had only about a 50% germination rate with my sweet peas.
at this point it is probably warm enough to direct sow some of your warm-weather seeds like zinnias and cosmos.
