It’s been so much fun again seeing our irises bloom. Every day I check to see if a new one has opened.
This one bloomed 4/30/10 and this year it bloomed April 16.
Even though this one is a lovely iris, when they first started blooming here when we moved in, there were so many of them. Since then I’ve given quite a few of them away especially to our annual Master Gardener’s plant sale. Now that we have just a few of them, I enjoy them much more. They bloomed 4/30/10 and bloomed April 16 this year.
This one bloomed May 1 in 2010 and bloomed April 16 this year.
This is one of the irises I purchased. It’s one of my favorite and is a rebloomer – blooming both now and in October. I dug it up from the “holding area” last fall so it is still in its pot waiting for a space in the iris bed. He bloomed 5/4/10 and just bloomed April 16 this year.
That’s all for the irises so far – many more to come! Our peonies are starting to bloom too. These were here when we moved in. I really love the blossoms with the separate petals on the bottom.
It won’t be long and we’ll be freezing goodies for the winter. In fact, I’ve already frozen two 1-pound packages of asparagus for soup this winter. Since we’re making room for the new produce and because we’ve not had one of these in awhile, I reached into the freezer and used some frozen pumpkin from our 2010 harvest to bake a pumpkin pie last night. Yum!
This is my grandma’s recipe with whiskey. See the recipe HERE.
So much to do with gardening this time of the year that crafting is put on the back burner. But I’m sure I fit some more time in to play real soon.
Beautiful! Boy, everything is way early this year!
That pumpkin pie must have been a real treat! Now, you can work it off in the garden!
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Hi.. This pie makes me definitely hungry and crave for pies.. Thanks for the recipe here.. Thanks!
I’ve been doing the same! Rush out when I awake and see what’s bloomed while I was sleeping! is there a bloom fairy? There has been crazy mixing up of blooming here this season. Usually the white iris? Blooms first, but this treat the dogwood bloomed 19 days early. I was a little upset, as it usually blooms exactly in my birthday. This year the iris did exactly that!
Wow! great shot. The flowers are refreshing. Thanks that you’ve shared these with us.
There has been crazy mixing up of blooming here this season. Great selection of photos.
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