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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 4 May 25

I have three colors blooming right now and it smells so good as well as looking pretty. I need to divide them this year. This is a medium lavender, I have white and one that I call mahogany right now. Yellow will open...

may 2025

iris

fragrant

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I went out to my iris

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 21 May 23

It is hard to choose what to share. I have three varieties that are smaller blooms, not so fancy and ruffled. I suspect they are the original iris that the other fancy ones have been bred from. I also have lots of big fluffy...

may 2023

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variety

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Finally blooming

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 12 May 23

I have quite a few different iris. It seems their bloom is a little late this year. This lavender and gold color is the one I have the most of, but there are plenty more. A friend shared some, my daughter has shared some. The are...

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I never even noticed

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 12 May 22

I am so tired and frazzled I did not notice that some of my iris have begun to bloom. It had to have been in the last day or two. I was sitting outside at 9 last night and in the just barely dark of the evening I could just make...

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The iris in my garden are about to bloom.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 28 Aug 21

I have some yellow iris in my front garden. I´ll wait untill they bloom and then I´ll change the bulbs hearer the fence so that they can be seen more by the passer bys. A couple of years ago, a friend gave me red iris bulbs but...

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Memorial Day Flowers

Krissttina Isobe @oahuwriter (26773) • United States 28 May 21

I was hoping Safeway would have Memorial Day Flowers. They had carnations, roses, tulips, gladiolus, purple iris combination of rises & carnations as well as others. I got purple iris flowers for Memorial Day.

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I just am not sure

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 22 May 21

I am not sure how I am liking this new medicine the doctor has given me. I will take it for a month to see. What point to see a doctor if you are not going to do what he says. I am not feeling well today. However that could be...

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From my daughter

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 14 May 21

These seem to be all the iris from my daughter that will bloom this year. I think they are so pretty. I believe the yellow ones are more native or true to species iris, and the bigger, frillier ones are hybrid or results of some...

may 2021

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samantha

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Darker than the night

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 10 May 21

At least right now, this very dark plum iris is darker than the night. It is almost 8 pm. I was awake at 3:30 this morning. Immediately after work I went and donated "power red" which is to say I donated double units of red blood...

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More iris

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 9 May 21

I have iris blooming both from my daughter and from my friend. There is a white one from each of them, but they have slight differences. From my daughter is an all white one. Even the fuzzy stamens. From Mary Ann the white one...

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Plum beautiful.

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 6 May 21

Okay, I have said I will post new iris as they bloom. This is the newest one. I got it from my daughter in Minnesota. Iris are lovely and so easy to grow. Do iris grow where you live?

may 2021

iris

plum colored

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Irises !!!

Danna B. @db20747 (43419) • Washington, District Of Columbia 20 Apr 21

This is the real life version of van goh's painting, irises!! Irises are fascinating flowers with a most unique shape! These purples were a treasure to find and I caught them with my camera!! This is one of my photos of spring....

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A small surprise

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 19 Apr 21

Because of the predicted cold weather, I did some outdoor chores. I brought in one more potted plant. It is pineapple sage that I had kept alive all winter. My yard is full of wild or naturalized flowers or weeds. Things like...

april 2021

iris

freeze

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Rainy Day

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 25 May 20

I guess it is for the best the cookout was cancelled. It is rainy and gray. We could find something to do, but my reasoning is that there will be lots of people "exploding" out of shut down and not being safe. We will go when...

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Food for the Body. Food for the Soul

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 26 Apr 18

Why do I garden? I was motivated to plant my first gardens to produce food to eat. We planted vegetables and fruit trees and they served us well. Once you've tasted fruit picked from the tree at peak ripeness, you never want any...

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The courage of a small plant

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381775) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May 17

When my sister was visiting no more than a fortnight ago, our neighbour gave me some iris rhizomes. There is a lot of granite around here and not many places where I could put the plants. However there was one small bed under the...

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Marsha's Log: Now I Have a Pretty Peach

Marsha Cooper @marsha32 (6631) • United States 9 May 17

Today I went out and found a pretty peach colored Iris bloomed. I know this is one of the bulbs that I dug up from someone's yard a few years back. She had them listed on freecycle. I took several bulbs that she said were peach...

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Marsha's Log: First Yellow Iris To Bloom

Marsha Cooper @marsha32 (6631) • United States 21 Apr 17

This week when I came home from babysitting I seen that my first yellow Iris had bloomed. I love the picture I got of it. I took it from a different perspective than usual. Otherwise, here in Kansas, it's once again turned cold...

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flowers

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Marsha's Log: First Iris Has Bloomed

Marsha Cooper @marsha32 (6631) • United States 15 Apr 17

I came back to town from babysitting to find that my first Iris has bloomed! Strangely enough, it's not yellow. I did buy some bulbs at the Iris show a few years back. I also dug up bulbs from a ladies yard when she offered in...

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For You Flower Lovers Out There~

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 20 Feb 17

I didn't know this and just heard it on Jeopardy. Iris is the goddess of rainbows, a messenger of the gods. Often depicted as a hand maiden. The rainbow of colors the Iris flower has is why it has that name. How would you like a...

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