Name: Peggy C Graham NC USA (Zone 7b) hand drumming with friends
With eleven different varieties of Iris, I marked them this year. Used chopsticks - put the # on them according to when they bloomed. Still good and not faded.
Live like every day as it is your last because one day -- it will be.
(if I can find who said this, I'll credit that dear Soul -- wasn't me, but it makes a lot of sense)