Gosh your flowering trees are just gorgeous, gorgeous! Just think how nice some tulips around the base might look.

Those tulips in Tower Square are not quite red. They are the most pretty unusual color and just glowed in the sunlight. They are called BIG CHIEF and are darwin tulips. Both Brent&Beckies and Scheepers sell them.

Polly we have 8 acres of fun to plant and play with :smily:

Rita thanks they did really well this year no wind or rain to beat on them so they have been blooming great and I like your idea of tulips under them will have to see whats left in the budget come fall I have a couple beds up close to the house we plant annuals and tropicals in and I try to fill them with tulips I just waited to long last year and I will definitly order some of yours I like that color.

You can order early so they will ship in the fall. Another good thing is to look into Brent&Beckies half price sale in the late fall. Of course not everything is there then as many things are sold out. But the prices are terrific.

The tulips which you do have certainly pick up the color of the flowering trees. Beautiful!

Just beautiful!

I did look all around to see if any other iris might have a stalk but that one is the only one so far. Too early for stalks here yet anyway.

Another pumila seedling blooming today.

Lucy, you definitely need to get a point and shoot camera.

I talked to the camera guy & I can finish up our last slide film. I will have to get a camera which I can focus, not autofocus & one that can be held without shaking.

Stalks coming up all over the place in the front yard iris beds. Not so much in the backyard. But it still seems early to me for TB iris bloom.

Rita when is normal bloom time for you there are you I think we are proabably a month a head of time but our last frost date is normally May 10th and were still a long ways off from there.

Our last frost date here is May 10th also.

Stalks on the Tall Bearded! More and more stalks are appearing around here each day.

pictures, morrrrrrrrre pictures!

There will lots of pictures once they start blooming!

Won't be long now, Rita!

This is my Iris bed. It is alongside my garage. It used to be filled with hostas, then I had to remove a tree last summer and the hosta had problems adjusting to being along the west wall without shade.
It's perfect for an iris bed because the overhang from the house keeps it on the dryer side.






I have some minis blooming right now. The only stalks I have are on Olympic Challenge. It bloomed mid May last year, I expect it to be a week ahead this season. The warm March made everything grow like crazy, but this more seasonable, frosty weather we have had in April has brought things mostly back to a more normal bloom season for now.

Many of these iris were gifts from Mit last fall.~Jan

That is a great place for iris. I bet it will be fabulous in bloom.

Looking good Jan, and it will be filled in faster than you can say iris.