Posted on May 21, 2017 2:45 PMMay 21, 2017 I never knew weather could be so obstructive and downright messy this time of year! But I must say this has been one of the worst months for gardening let alone irises in a long, long time! I had posted a weather map in part three of this continuing blog. And that is pretty much what we have endured for the past several days. Before that system there was a perpetual strong wind from the north and east almost every day! We have yet to start the vegetable garden this year except for some onions and lettuce. So we seem to be running about two weeks behind in planting. Weather has impacted iris blooms tremendously this year; wind, hail, and heavy rains have done a lot of damage. And unfortunately many iris blossoms were not fit for pictures, but I salvaged what I could.
Here are from left to right: Crowned Heads on each side of Honorabile. These were taken today before the storm.
Next is Monsignor, a historic iris, centered between two views of Olympiad, a great iris hybridized by Joe Ghio.
Next is Queen's Circle followed by Ramses, a historic iris, and then Shepherd's Delight from England.
The last entry for today shows Vanity's Child at left, Song Of Norway, center, and Yaquina Blue at right.
May 22, 2017 I had wanted to get more pictures for this blog today, however the wind was too strong at morning sunlight. So I went back through the files to pick up a few from the stormy weather days last week. We had three days in a row of rain, sleet/hail and wind. Therefore I salvaged three to add today. below left is TB, Blue Shimmer, by Jacob Sass, 1941. It is a hauntingly beautiful old iris which I have determined to keep. Then there is Queen's Circle, a beautiful 'newer' iris from Frederick Kerr, 1999/2000. And lastly there's Vanity, a beautiful old pink iris from the late Ben Hager, 1974-1975.
