Saturday, May 19, 2012

Iris, Hosta, Rhododendron

I love the different patterns on the hostas. 

I bought them a few years ago at the end of the season when they were very, very cheap.

I'm going to have to embroider some leaves like this. 

Not all my iris bloomed this year. 

These are Japanese Iris that line a walkway in the flower garden. 


Another bearded iris. 


The rhododendron out front had beautiful blooms this year. When I went to Ireland years ago these grew wild all over the place. 

These are some old fashioned iris. You can't kill them. I threw some on the compost file a few years ago and they still grow in a clump there. 

This is a large clump of those iris out back. That is a fritillaria sticking up out of them. There is a small clump of those there too. DH wants to cut down the tree they grow around since it blocks the view from his telescope he has on the deck. 

Another iris. I love blue flowers. Long ago I had a blue garden. Now wild things grow in there and it's not only blue.