Iris From My Garden

I am SO looking forward to the blooming of all my iris plants. In May of 2007 I took Cole and Levi to Schreiner's Iris Gardens near Salem. We spent over 2 hours (on a drizzly day) looking at and photographing the beautiful flowers there. The boys were especially thrilled to find one with the name "Millennium Falcon", as that is the name of a starship in Star Wars. After much contemplation and changing of my mind, I placed my order for about a dozen rhizomes.

Once we had some good weather I spent 2 days cleaning up an overgrown iris bed on the side of our house, just out my bedroom window. Once my rhizomes arrived in the late summer I got them arranged and then waited.....

This is what I got the next spring. Most of the plants are bigger this year so I am anxious for MORE blooms.

My favorites are Swingtown and Sweeter than Wine. That probably doesn't surprise you, since they are "purple".

I will post the rest of the iris photographs soon.




The one labeled "Unknown name" has been in our garden for years and I don't recall exactly where it came from. I liked how it looked with the ornamental brown grass in the background. I had transplanted this iris to our front corner garden.