Wow! Are you doing it all by yourself, or do you have help? That is a lot!

Holy crow, that's a lot...

evelyninthegarden said:Wow! Are you doing it all by yourself, or do you have help? That is a lot!

...... all by my lonesome ----

That's a lot of work!

This has been a most fascinating thread, with fabulous photos and explanations.
I also notice these postings are from 2016 and 2017, so I am wondering if there
are any updated views of these photos for comparison? Also, any more Iris
growers to add their input.

Now where are some of these iris enthusiasts now?

@AlanJ
@Barbalee
@Boxergirl
@bramedog
@cliftoncat
@crowrita1 (cubits)
@Dachsylady86
@froggardener
@gemini_sage
@Hemlady
@LynnG
@Moiris
@Muddymitts (cubits)
@TBMan
@UndertheSun

????????????

My garden hasn't changed much. I have packed in more irises along the path and front fence and I have added 2 raised garden beds for my seedlings.
These are photos from 2013-14 and 2020

Robin ~ Wow, just beautiful!

Great photos, thanks for posting Robin.

beauties, robin. love that clump of light blue irises.

I like those lovely clumps of blue. Your place is beautiful, Robin!
Glad to see this thread revived, Glendolyn.

I left behind so many gardens that I decided to never garden again. But then we had this area during home construction. We had planned our 10 acres as being fully no-mow (with goats doing yard maintenance except where they could nibble on the house) so I thought of just putting a wildflower meadow on this bit. Then I got the latest Oakes daylily catalog and figured this was a once in a lifetime weed-free gardening opportunity that I just couldn't pass up. So of course I needed 140 irises from Winterberry to keep the daylilies company. And two dozen Siberian's. And then 24 hellebores from Barry Glick for early season bloom.




I started this in early July last year and did a late August iris and daylily planting. For initial ground cover and weed suppression, I did a thick sowing of cosmos and good winter sowing flower species - then mowed and tilled tending paths through "big block of garden" to make 15 big beds. Those were lined with the irises and daylilies.






The long term plan is for this to be a parent garden for divisions and seeds to flower up goat land. 😃

Welcome to the Iris Forum Linda!

I agree that all that land does look like an invitation to order a few plants - or not so few as the case may be!

I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops. We moved to a new property 3 years ago and it was mostly just lawn, so I started from scratch too and it will be a few years yet before I'm 'finished'.

FormerGWzoneLyndaWS said:I left behind so many gardens that I decided to never garden again.

You might leave the garden, but gardening will never leave you! back!

good for you!

Lynda. This is a great time to join with so many irises blooming.

Lynda.

That paddock of irises and daylilies will look spectacular when they bloom

iciris said: Lynda. This is a great time to join with so many irises blooming.

and

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I've been tapping the thumbs up button as a thank you, but now have no idea if green or gray means tapped or not. So thanks again, and please excuse those random like and unlike taps. 😁

Lynda, gray is like. Touch the thumb again to take away your gray like and it will turn green again. You can also touch the number next to the the number to see who liked the post.