How many of you enjoy gardening? I know I do! About 4 1/2 years ago I planted a slew of Bearded Iris flower bulbs around our property. Some of them will bloom purple, blue/purple, peach or orange. I love the colors that you can find them in and they’re super easy to grow!
This past spring (2016) we have had a lot of rainy weather, cooler than normal temps and tons of cloudy days. Sigh…usually by now we are heating up around here, but not this year! I think Mother Nature forgot that we are now almost into the official start of Summer!
This gardening season my Bearded Iris’ all bloomed almost 3 weeks late. Usually they bloom for me in late April or very early May. This year though…it was May 18th until we saw the first bloom and then by the end of the month…they were all done.
On one particular morning on a cloudy day we had some rain showers move through the area. I love looking at my flowers after we have had a rain shower and I particularly love seeing the rain drops sitting on the velvety petals of the flowers. Most of the time I have a hard time capturing it with my camera, but thankfully my Samsung picked up those water droplets pretty good this time.
How are your late spring flower gardens doing this year? Do you grow any Bearded Iris’ and do you have a favorite color or variety that you like to grow?
I don’t grow any Bearded Irises. I love the gorgeous purple color of yours in the photo. The plants all seemed to blossom late here too.
Your Purple Bearded Iris’s are Gorgeous! Such a Vibrant Purple just Love them! I too have some Bearded Iris’s Planted! Mine are Bright Orange and a soft Peach. I didn’t know they came in a Beautiful Purple like yours. Thankyou for the very informative post. I am now thinking of buying some purple ones for next year! 🙂
Our weather in the northwest has certainly been unusual this year. Already 10 days of 80 degree weather but cool and rainy now. I love Irises and ours have come and gone but now my day lilies and hydrangeas are in full bloom Everything seems 5-6 weeks ahead of schedule. Afraid I wont have anything in bloom by August.
Your garden must be gorgeous all season long. Irises are among my favorite flowers, and your pictures with their perfect raindrops are exquisite. Thanks for sharing.
Irises always remind of my Grandma & her house (where I grew up.) She had one entire side of her house planted with irises, the light purple.
I have a few bearded irises mine are yellow and purple. I am afraid I dont have them in a nice spot, and do need to transplant them. I would also love to plant more. I garden and have a wildflower area (small one) I am working on getting more pollinator friendly flowers.
Your purple iris is lovely, and thats a great shot of it!