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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:19 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post





























































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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 07:18 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Two Different Worlds......~




That says it all!

Jain the wisteria..I have only ever seen that at the Cape.. Look at yours..I would just be outside staring at mine..

I can't wait for my Iris to be out of hiding!

How they remind me of you!

Little Blue Eyes is just about the cutest thing~


My brugs..are still in the workshop..

I wonder honestly why I bother if yours is what mine is supposed to look like..Poor J helps me haul them in every yr..
I think I'll haul in Figs instead..that's on my list this yr..

I have always loved the names of Irises too..

This post reminds me very much of the first ones of yours that caught my eye and knocked my socks off..
I used to show people in the office:)

Thanks Jain.. for taking the time to post..It teaches too you know..

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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 09:39 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain-- Oh how beautiful. I would be out side all the time. My Wisteria is still sleeping. It would be hard to chose a favorite iris. They are beautiful. All your flowers are beautiful.
I'm sure you have told this before and I missed it. But could you tell us about your place, if you don't mind. How long have you had it? Did you plant all the flowers? How many acres do you have?

Linda Washington State Zone 8
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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 09:54 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Iris must be one of the most elegant flowers I can think of and what a beautiful collection you have, Jain! It's amazing all the different hues and shadings there are. The blues and purples are my absolute faves but Perfect Couple and the one right beneath it are so pretty too. Your Wisteria just makes me swoon!

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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:21 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain - the irises are simply gorgeous....I've always been fond of the purple varieties. Thanks for taking the time to give their names.

We're at least 2 months away from having iris blooms. Around our area we've been hit with a fungus the last couple of years.... iris leaf spot. I hope that this year is better for the plants.

Cynthia

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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:26 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Monique wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 07:18 am:

It teaches too you know..

yes, it does, and it gets people interested, I am so interested now and learning bit by bit.

Beautiful pictures, they are absolutely gorgeous.

I would love to do some more gardening this year. I don't know names to anything but it is all so beautiful! I can just forward to my lilacs, I know those, everything else I am lost :)

Dishesdone - New York, Zone "7"
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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:50 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain gorgeous pictures and flowers as always. I don't know anyone with the variety of irises you have.

M I know what you mean about the tropicals you haul in every year and still they never look as they should in their natural environment. I had a lovely mandevilla last year. I contemplated trying to over winter. I really have no good place to do that. And whatever it lost over the winter, it would never regain in new growth. So I treated it as an expensive annual and this year I will start out with a new one.

Dishesdone wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:26 am:

I would love to do some more gardening this year.



Well Carol you have a willing enabler and teacher just down the road a piece!

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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 11:07 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Plantynut wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:50 am:

Well Carol you have a willing enabler and teacher just down the road a piece!

thanks, Arlene, I will definitely take you up on it, too :) YAY!

Dishesdone - New York, Zone "7"
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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 11:58 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Beautiful iris! Love the wisteria, too.

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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:12 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain, thank you, thank you, thank you!

I just love ALL views of your garden. These irises are truly beautiful and the masses of pink & yellow flowers providing backgrounds are just gorgeous. Love the wisteria and angel trumpets too...okay, what I really mean to say is I LOVE IT ALL!

Birdgarden - MN, Zone "4"
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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:59 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Absolute paradise! I have been thinking about you going to Italy in April and for me and most everybody else even more, it would be like the movie Enchanted April (if you haven't seen it you must before you go). But for you....people could go to your place right now and it would be Enchanted April...or March as the case may be.

I think I've asked before, but what is the pink blooming shrub by the green wooden bench in the first shot?

Suzyqt1968 - Washington, Zone "7-8"
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Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 06:19 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Thank you for the hopes of iris blooms to come.
Do I see a tamarisk (sp?) bush with pink blooms?

Eileen Pennsylvania Zone 5
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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 12:58 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain, such a lovely garden. Descanso Gardens here had a lovely iris garden that DH photographed a couple of years ago. It rivals yours! Our Angel's Trumpet doesn't look half as abundant than yours!
I love seeing the photos of your beautiful garden. When do you leave on your trip?

Compumom - Los Angeles, CA, Zone "CA "
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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 08:57 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post














the living bridge on frog hill is smothered in jasmine

carol, see, i don't dust outside either~













the back of the i love you iris bench is covered in jasmine, the front a white rose

Blue_moon - ca, Zone "9"
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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 09:12 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Monique wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 07:18 am:

Look at yours..I would just be outside staring at mine..

oh i am... i love this one, its contained and prefect. the other i have are monsters...

Monique wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 07:18 am:

I think I'll haul in Figs instead..

i won't show you my fig tree either then...

Dahlianut wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 09:39 am:

How long have you had it? Did you plant all the flowers? How many acres do you have?

linda we built our home in 89, we have 5 acres and i planted everything except for the scattering of native oaks on this grassy hill.

Susanq wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 09:54 am:

Your Wisteria just makes me swoon!

me too!

Addison wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:21 am:

iris leaf spot

we get that in wet rainy springs too, but it grows out with our dry summers.

Dishesdone wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:26 am:

I would love to do some more gardening this year.

i think its great arlene will guide you into a gorgeous garden! get her a fruit tree please~

Suzyqt1968 wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:59 pm:

if you haven't seen it you must before you go

thanks i will look for it!

Suzyqt1968 wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:59 pm:

what is the pink blooming shrub

its the tamarisk tree, the hill is steep so you can't see the base...

hi ellen! did you ever get the email i sent you??? i even bot you a real card to mail and now i can't find it, its in the bill pile to do and i have been lax! you know i love my gift box from you, did you see all that on wfd?

THANK YOU everyone for your comments, it makes me happy to share if you care! as long as you visit here i will just keep adding garden pics on this thread. soon the iris will be too many to post, but for now i have about 60 varieties open. if it gets quiet here i will know you have all reached your saturation point and i will stop bothering you with my garden, but you can see it eats up most of my time!

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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 09:57 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

I just keep clicking save as !!

So many of the names are familiar to me now..
Monologue :)Mariposa..Country Blues..

All your gorgeous statuary..

I can't imagine all the hard physical work.
It must be so rewarding..

Monique Quebec Zone 5
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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 10:37 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Jain-- what can I say, oh la la!! Just beautiful. I could never pick just one favorite. But the yellows and blues are up at the top of the list. And then there is Lady Jean, wow! You have done a wonderful job.

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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 11:33 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

Oh, Jain, all of it is just lovely, each picture could be a note card....Please keep them coming.

About the iris leaf spot... our summers are so humid...I'm sure that doesn't help and the iris beds collect all of the oak leaves... a never-ending cycle... I probably need to be more vigilant with a fungicide.

Cynthia

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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 11:54 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosPrint Post

I wonder if any east coast people are near enough to this site for a visit this summer:

http://www.presbyirisgardens.org/

I used to work nearby (when I was 12!) and also my grandparents' home was a hop skip & a jump from these iris gardens. I visited it OFTEN as a child. I loved it, but have no idea if it has been kept up since those days back in the 1950s... Perhaps you can tell me!

I think it might be an enjoyable day trip and Arlene could take glorious photos too.

Gardenbug - Ontario, Zone "4/5"

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