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I sure wish these kind of flowers would bloom longer… but while they are going, I love it.

First the peony. This is 2nd year in a row that it hasn’t been mashed to the ground as it bloomed. I cut 5 for my mom on Sunday, and cut myself a bunch more today seeing as how it’s supposed to storm tonight and might mash it all down.

Next up, in no particular order… the iris. Some of these are at my house, not here, but I do plan on digging this year to move some. I love my 2 tone pink and my purple edged iris. The bed I’ve built up here is nice, but it needs more variety… okay, maybe not, it’s pretty mixed, but it could be better.

Haven’t done a darn thing at the stamping table except cut up some of the wallpaper border. Once the rain went away it’s been seriously nice out… but too wet to do any gardening for most of the week. I was a lazy layabout Monday and Tuesday.

Yesterday we mowed and I dug flower beds. Some where Ron dug for me last year, some where no one had dug. Probably ever. I had something like 75 gladiola bulbs to plant, had some serious digging to do. Not to mention some mixed lilies and a couple elephant ears, too. Oh, and my surviving hyacinths out of the pots from last year… not many survived.

I don’t have any brugmansia to plant out this year, didn’t keep cuttings from last year. Now that it’s warm again I’ll see about buying some new ones. The last time I bought some we had a really chilly spring and of the 4 I got, 3 died before I could plant them out. I was left with a beautiful golden yellow that I kept cuttings from, and had a nice show this last fall. The datura I got last year mostly sat there and didn’t do much… it tried to bloom and the wind would beat the blooms right off. Gotta have plants that can handle the wind here! I did finally get some awesome blooms, but it seemed to take forever. Always does with that sort of plant… this isn’t the right zone for them. I’d really like datura or brugmansia that will reseed itself… I =know= some do. Just gotta find the right kind.

I will be busy shaving grass off and putting down black plastic mulch this weekend… and of course we will also put in our tomato and pepper plants. My plan is to use the fence line to grow cukes and sunflowers. I’ve got a bunch of different kinds of sunflower seeds to plant, and cukes to climb up and around. I love sunflowers, and on a fence is good because with wind they tend to want to fall over. Fence will also keep my cukes up off the ground.

Oh, and I’m sunburned. Nose and cheeks, from working in the yard yesterday. Shoulders I guess from later on, when I got too hot to wear sleeves. I always forget sunscreen when it gets nice again. Not a bad sunburn, just a bit pink, but I’ll remember the sunscreen tomorrow.

SO glad Spring is really here… heck, it’s almost done with spring already, the lilacs are done!!!

Heh, I really wanted to write…. A Flower by Henry Gibson. But this isn’t a poem from a guy on Laugh In, it’s a real flower.

It’s the cutest tiniest dearest iris I’ve ever seen.

We have a bunch of these under a tree in the yard, which I just noticed last year. Looks like grass or something… until you get close and notice that it’s wee iris leaves. I dug some up, planning on taking some to my friend in OKC and some to my Mom. Of course I forgot to take them to OKC and haven’t been to see my Mom yet.

When I got home from OKC I looked at the ones I’d dug up to make sure they weren’t all dried out and dead. And there was this adorable tiny bloom. So, here it is…

And yes, that’s my thumb in there for size reference.

Because the one in the pot is blooming, I went to check under the tree. Four or five blooms is all, but they are a solid mass of iris leaves. Guess I’d better dig some more up and spread them around the yard in places. They sure bloom early enough!

Isn’t that just the cutest wee iris you’ve ever seen? :)