Posted on May 27, 2017 8:40 AMMay 27, 2017 Wow! Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I started these blog posts. Long story short, April was a disaster! Yet it was way back on May 10th.....17 days ago when I had my first pictures posted of the dwarfs, miniature dwarfs and a few others that were available and undamaged. The weather this year has been so quirky, and unpredictable. The small ones had very hard freezes, frosts and any number of bad weather phenomena and at least one cold snow. For awhile it was nothing to wake up to temperatures in the very low 30's F, and many days with a hard overnight freeze. And then later it was nothing to have back-to-back thunderstorms with high damaging winds! From reading the posts of others in the Iris Forum I realize I am not alone with bad weather. So that I do not forget the spring of 2017, "the weather was crappy!" Sorry folks I'll need to remember that next year!
So with that said here are some pictures from May 23, 2017. These are for my records, and I'm sure that I posted most of them in the Iris Forum. They are placed here as a means of jogging my memory, and for anyone else who cares to look. First below are Batman, Blackbeard and Black Suited.
Next are Bundle Of Love on each side of Different World.
Next are two views of Elizabeth Poldark on each side of a mixed perennial bed.
Next are three pictures of irises donated to my garden from Arlyn in Illinois. @crowrita1 They are Monsignor on each side of Ramses. Thank you Arlyn for sharing these two historics!
Below this set is a close up shot of Ramses, then Ringo, an old iris from George Shoop, and then a general garden shot in the center.
Next is Shadows Of Night from Rick Tasco at Superstition Iris Gardens, then Shepherd's Delight, a beautifully bearded iris from England. And lastly is Sultry Mood, a Schreiner iris from the 90's I think.
The last entry for this post is a gorgeous old iris from Grace Sturtevant, 1920. It is a great historic iris for the collector.
This will conclude my blog post for May 23rd, 2017 pictures. I will continue to update with pictures from May 24th & May 25th when I get my outside work caught up for today, May 27, 2017.
