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Tip toe thru my tulips - and more '08
Sheriff Roland:
Last year, I was thinning out - well de-grassing a flowerbed up front - from an area, just a little larger than this hole:
And from that came the following temporary flowerbed in the back:
Sheriff Roland:
But that wasn't all. Removed a whole bunch more (I don't remember from where) and put them temporarily in the back yard too - in two other spots. Got me 4 temporary iris beds in the back now. And they're quite healthy
First temporary iris flower bed (as prepared 2 years ago). photo taken this morning:
The second & third temporary iris flower bed from last year, as they looked this morning:
And the fourth 'leftover' temporary iris flower bed from last year - as photographed this morning:
Sheriff Roland:
Now here's today's story.
I was suppose to move some of those iris today (well, yesterday, but I didn't do that yesterday ...) cause they were smaller - maybe even 'dwarf' iris, and I've been working on the flowerbed nearest the sidewalk lately. a perfect place for short plants. Problem is there were also some blue iris starting to show in the tulip flowerbed (remember, the one Bryan's suppose to give an overhaul later this summer?) and I started by trying to remove those first.
From this small dig (about one square foot), I harvested about 20 healthy iris (and a half dozen sufocating tulip bulbs).
Oh & please note that in this picture, (on top, within the grass) there's yet (another 20? - 40?) more iris, due for transplant later this month.
Sheriff Roland:
So I planted em in that front flowerbed - in 3 places instead of one (circular positioning is apparently recommended)
Sheriff Roland:
And this after just last week seperating a clump of dark red daylilies and speading em (some 15 plants) out at the bottom left of this picture,
as well as seperating some lovely 'Stella D'Or' daylilies (some 20 of em) and placing em in that area to the centre of this pic.
There might not be much of a show this year from this area - but next year - look out.
In the meantime, if I may paraphrase a song Spike Jones released in 1949: "Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny an Iris?"
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