Bearded irises 31 Mar 26
Today I finished annual cleanup of bearded iris bed, and finished mulching with aged arborist chips. Bearded irises are a challenge here. If I don't mulch, they get fungal and bacterial diseases. That's different from most places. #BeardedIrises #gardening 🌱
Bearded Iris bed late March 2026
Only one quadrant remaining to weed in the bearded iris bed now, and two quadrants to mulch with arborist chips. The moist soil is easy to weed. They look very vigorous this year. I hope it will be a good bloom season. #gardening #beardedirises 🌱
A blooming bearded iris plant with strappy green leaves. 2 lavender blue flowers with creamy yellowish centers and a long skinny bud with dark blue color showing on a green flower stalk. There is an Oriental lily plant n a plum tree in the green background.
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131 days till spring YAY!
Hell with Monday Blues
Digging out n dividing lavender blue bearded iris later today if the weather clears up a bit. This pic is my irises from spring this yr.
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Bearded Irises
Copyright Liza Dey Photography.
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A row of light purple and deep purple bearded irises growing in front of green pine trees in spring. There are foxgloves and grassy green crocosmias growing between the clusters of irises.
Sunday's Best
Spring rolled by fast!
It's time to dig out some of these bearded irises to make room for crocosmias growing between them for summer flowers.
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HAPPINESS - Purple & yellow bearded irises, also orange Oriental poppies are in full bloom now in our 3 yr old front yard garden. So fragrant too!
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3 frilly peach bearded Irises on a stalk with green strap leaves around them. There are 2 little blue fuzzy tail like things on each side side petals of the flowers. There are straight flower stalks around the flowers and some leaves from little cherry tree.
Birthday gifts that keep giving- these peach bearded irises are fragrant and beautifully dressed ! Planted them 2 yrs ago and the cluster is fuller now.
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Irises in a sunny green backyard garden. A large frilly lavender blue bearded iris with water spots on the petal and a smaller purple bearded iris above it. There 7 straight stalks with dark blue and light blue iris buds on the right and green leaves. There is a green grass lawn too.
Monday's Blues on a sunny day.
Beautiful lavender blue, dark purple bearded iris are blooming now in this usually shady spot of my garden. The plants are all 3 yrs old.
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This is a modern variety. "Better Than Butter". Slight, sweet, fragrance. This iris had an especially refined appearance, with buttery yellow, ruffled edges, horizontal, flared falls, and bright golden beards. It almost glows,
Bearded Iris "Accent". A very old variety, introduced in 1953. Yellow standards, reddish, maybe mauve? falls.
A modern tall bearded iris, "Play to Win". Faint sweet fragrance. Introduced in 2012. White standards, brilliant yellow, ruffled falls.
I'm not sure of this one. I used to grow "Spiced Custard" and this might be it, or it might not. Quite nice, anyway. Yellow standards, rusty falls with yellow, ruffled margins.
Some more tall bearded irises in the yard. Shades of yellow and rust. 🌱 #Gardening #BeardedIrises #Bloomscrolling
Ms. Duck and Mr. Duck, inseparable. Never more than a foot or two apart. Continuous quack quack quack quack! They are a variety called "Magpie duck". She's pretty productive, about an egg a day at four years old. They forage constantly, for bugs, worms, slugs, caterpillars etc, and eat less per egg compared to hens. Today I made a black bean chocolate cake, using four duck eggs instead of five hen eggs. The yellow bearded irises came with the house. I don't know the variety "Gold Sovereign" from the late 1940s / early 1950s has a similar look, so maybe that one.
Very, very old bearded iris varieties. The pale blue one cluster is Iris pallida dalmatica, a truly ancient bearded iris from the Dalmatian coast. Used for orris root, fragrances. These flowers have a candy fragrance. The carmine - ish bearded iris is the variety Indian Chief, created in the year 1929. I don't know what to say about the name, I hope it can be considered OK to use, even if not appropriate any more. Also a candy fragrance. These old varieties are tougher, less susceptible to diseases and rains, more tolerant of neglect, and more fragrant, compared to the larger, frillier, more colorful newer ones.
Bearded iris Alcazar. This historic variety was created by French hybridizer Phillippe de Vilmorin in Paris. They first bloomed in 1905. Fragrant, tolerant of adversity. Modern varieties have more horizontal, larger, flaring falls, but miss out on the fine fragrance. It's old and lovely.
An old rhododendron bush in the duck yard, with massive flower clusters as big as Rufus's head. Sometimes Ms. duck lays her eggs under the bush. I bet it's as old as the house, built in the 70s.
Tall bearded irises around the yard, and a rhodie. 🌱 #gardening #ducks #beardedirises #bloomscrolling
Clusters of purple, yellow n peachy bearded iris along a gravel path.
And nothing else matters..
My 3 yrs old Yellow, peachy and purple bearded irises have just started blooming and filing up along this gravel path.
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This variety is "Red Dirt Road" from Schreiners. Very tall, very large blosdom, vigorous growth. Tends to fall over. Not sure what to name call the color - deep maroon? Nice, and unusual. Not much fragrance.
Unknown variety. I think these were from a "grab bag" of no-name rhizomes. Very nice purple-edge plicata with mauve standards. Faint generic floral scent.
Bearded iris "Overjoyed". Creamy white standard (standing) petals with lemon yellow falls. Not very fragrant.
This was a "roadside freecycle rhizomes" iris. I think it's the historic iris variety "Blue Shimmer", developed in 1942. Standing and falling petals both with blue edges, white main part of petals.
Bearded Iris season is inderway. Last year, I cleaned up about 50 rhizomes from a thistle- and grass- overgrown flower bed, transplanted to new location. Didn't expect much this year. 🌱 #gardening #beardedirises #bloomscrolling
Crimson King Bearded Irises this morning.
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My iris garden last year- 2 yr old garden. Dug out 6 big clusters from my old garden at the previous house. I split the rhizomes and planted irises everywhere in this new yard.
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I love bearded irises. I have several clusters planted throughout my yard. I am hoping to expand on my collection and add many more different colors. #beardedirises #flowers
