Garden Snap Shots!

Excitement eh?🤔 mmmmm, I remember that, distantly mind-back in the day when we could shoot off all over the Country, talk with strangers who we could understand without muffled face coverings. Hug family members who we met regularly, giggle, laugh raucously without worry of infecting/getting infected. Walk towards folk without them scurrying away. Neighbours slowly becoming strangers, mourning a lifestyle we didn’t realise was so enjoyable. . .Err sorry muscles you were saying?😞

Take that salami out of your mouth when talking please   

Those were the days Rocky😁 I’ve missed neighbourly chats through the hedge over Winter, but folks are emerging now thankfully. We have actually got to know some of our not quite so close neighbours a lot more this last year. Mainly because we have been in to see them!😂

Lovely surprise in greenhouse today. Forgot I had planted these, some lovely little iris I bought last year. They will go into garden once they have finished flowering. On kitchen window at the moment😁

Beaut splash of welcome colour in a generally yellow/white season TDA👍🏻. I have the big Flag irises on a northern border that flower late spring-early summer.

They are lovely Rocky, I recall buying them, split the little bulbs between me and Mum. They had got pushed behind another pot. I have some flag iris, but not doing very well☹️ I don’t seem to have the knack with these. Not buried too deep, leaves come up, but they don’t flower. I got two more iris for my birthday, one flag, one pond. Will plant them both carefully. My pond ones do very well.

TDA, I was told that flag irises like their rhizomes planted with part of the rhizome above the soil and liked to be baked by the sun.  I always got a good display of flowers planted this way 

Thanks impy, that’s how mine are planted, albeit in a very large pot. Always in full sun, rhizomes showing. I think it must be to do with the pot🤷‍♀️ Think I will plant them in ground this year. Just got to find the right space. I do ok with the little bulb ones and the pond ones, just a disaster with flag iris😬

Some ‘lower’ order birds or even animals generally don’t get much press from folk, they don’t engender the need travel around the country because they rarely do gigs in the UK, I find the much maligned House Sparrow & Starling the epitome of survivors in the true sense of the word-they adapt. The usual fayre on offer in my garden is mostly inundated by customers so the Sparrows have adapted to the Tits fatballs & half coconuts, the Starlings too. They hang from them at all angles sometimes on 1 foot✊. They have my respect for sure-

PS-the plumage of the Starling is beautiful👍🏻

Sorted through my birthday bulbs and corms this afternoon. Potted up some nice anemones, but had to read up about a rather unusual corm my Sister bought me.....a Starfish Iris, Ferraria Crispa. South African in origin, more of a houseplant than garden plant. Very unusual, will look forward to seeing this later in year.