TBGDN's blog: Irises In Indiana May, 2017 Part Six

Posted on May 29, 2017 7:19 PM

May 29, 2017 It is Memorial Day week-end and things have been very busy. There is garden work of all kinds including, weeding, planting, tilling, de-bugging, etc. etc. This post is concerned with irises and likely will be the last one for 2017. The medians and dwarfs were a disaster this year because of up and down weather patterns. And now that the tall bearded ones are about done we get slammed by a series of storms with driving rain, hail and high winds. Long story short: Nasty, bad weather all spring! The last one was Sunday evening about 6:32 PM when everything cut loose; thunder, lightening, strong winds, hail and I don't know what else! I thought the west windows would break from the pounding hail. Needless to say, that put a stop to my iris season for 2017. Everything was either shredded, blown down, or snapped off.

I'll look for pre-storm pictures when time permits. Meanwhile I'll close out the iris season with this blog post. It will become a record of what happened and when. It just was not a good year, but we march on!

Pictures of Vanity before and after the storm

May31, 2017 Today marks the end of May, and June will soon arrive on our doorsteps. It has been somewhat frustrating this month caring for and protecting iris plants. With the frustration comes the reward of all the beautiful blooms, as well as gifts to friends, elderly and just plain people. I did look (and find) a few pictures that I had taken before the bad storms of Sunday evening, May 28th. I'll post them here just for the record, and just because they were part of my garden this year in 2017.
Below are Silverado, Sierra Grande & Song of Norway
Then there were these three, Holy Night, Heartbreaker, and Starship Enterprise I cannot close out the year without adding these: Presence on each side of Harlem Hussy. They are all excellent quality irises.

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