Well I did take a picture of my three plants the other day, so I better post them to see how they compare. The freezing mornings are making the leaves turn brown now. I don't think there will be any observable progress for picture until spring.


Picture taken August 18

Picture Taken Sept. 21
Western Edge----Under My Spell
-Dark Energy---

Picture taken November 2.

No more progress for me until next spring. Everything is nice and green but settling into dormancy so any further growth is at a stand still.

I could show the growth of weeds as progress. Nice dirt, Tom

My irises look like those in Tom's last picture and they will look like that or slightly worse until the spring growth starts. The good thing? The weeds have stopped growing too!

Oh the weeds haven't stopped here. Even on a bed that I just finished and put Preen on is filled with tiny new ones growing, really gets me mad, but I guess some weeds aren't affected by it.

I never use any chemicals on my weeds, but I have to admit to being very tempted to try some on the Groundelder!

I have a fine batch of clover trying to pop up in several of the gardens. Stuff doesn't care what season it is, it just keeps growing.

After all, Preen is a premergent. Computer doesn't know how to spell that either,
Liz & I are in the same zone so nothing growing here either. a23 mph wind active right now so know use for hubby to rake leaves. It makes him restless as he is an outdoor person.

My Evening Rounds is still in a smallish pot - but seems happy enough.

I am embarrassed by the number of mine still in pots.

We're having spring-like weather.

Leslie, no need to be embarrassed- your iris gluttony is celebrated here!

Glutton I am, but the iris deserve to be planted in real beds. And I made a huge new bed this year, and really expanded the back garden, but still have a huge pot ghetto. Somewhere along the way I must have gotten more iris than planned.....I ask you, how could that have happened??

Sounds like the "Gremlins", to me!!

Indeed Arlyn! They are tricksy that way.

I think it's something in the water! I know that some days I go to bed and wake up the next morning and Oh My, I've made an order and I just don't remember doing it. I'm sure it's like some kind of drug that's being put into the water. But of course they are such nice irises, I wouldn't dare cancel the order. I'm sure there's some kind of conspiracy !

You know, maybe it is the iris themselves doing this. The drug isn't in the water, it is in their scent. Once it penetrates your brain you are hooked. There really is truth to the "iris virus".

Hmmm ! I knew POPPIES did that, so I guess irises can too !