Your new iris is gorgeous Kay. You lily bed looks awesome! My lilies seem to have grown so much. Have you been having vole trouble? They hit my gardens last spring for the first time ever and I hate the little creatures. This year so far they have gotten two camellias so I am on the look out daily for chewed on plants. Good luck with your voles and I hope they go away and stay away for both of us. Judy

Wow! Its all looking very pretty and green.The Iris is very pretty, too.My cat killed one of them critters yesterday.I found it laying by a plant in the yard.at least, she didnt put it by my front door this time.Everything she kills, she puts it right in front of the front door,I guess so I will see it when I go out.

Jean

That iris is just lovely. Won't be long now before there is lots and lots of TB iris bloom for you. Everything looks so green and growing so well in the gardenshot.

Look how lush your daylilies are, they look ready to bust out in bloom any day. Lovely iris, I like the colors. So nice to start seeing iris, isn't it. I should have a couple in bloom this morning, you are making me antsy to go out & inspect.
Voles really attacked my garden last year, I saw their tunnels all over the place. I didn't really see that they ate any plants, but I lost a couple that I think they dislodged. My cats caught several. I lost several daylilies overwinter, & I think maybe the voles/moles, whatever they are, ate them.

WOW. Love to see all that daylily foliage and your garden looks so neat and you've mulched everything already. Still no scapes?

Iris foliage here is still growing and I finally cleaned out all the beds and trimmed off the dead foliage. I'm so happy to know that all the dividing/transplanting I did last year are growing. :-).

I kept wanting to ask what brand of greenhouse did you get? I've been on the greenhouse/garden structure forum over the last year reading everyone's comments on what they bought as well on the Mydaylilies site reading about experiences. One day I'll finally get one or we will build it.

Julia

prettypetals,
I have way with the voles. I have bought several products (and have one on order from Gardensupply) but the bait stations have been the most productive. I lost three rose bushes, and one daylily and a very well established butterfly bush to them.

The neighborhood cats have discovered the beasts, and I see several different cats at times, but Ive seen only a couple of new tunnel entrances this season.

Jean, Hooray for the cat! Yes, our cat delivers them to the front door too.

Rita and ngraham,
The iris show should start very soon...there are lots of bud spikes up.

Julia, I never have daylilies until the iris are almost through. The foliage is the most lush it has ever been, though.

Thank you all for looking.
kay

Kay!! So SO pretty, the pic of your daylily bed. I always kind of inwardly struggle b/c I'm not a large fan of daylily foliage (excuse the pun) but I love the flowers so much, however they look so springy and pretty in your garden.

That iris is gorgeous. Your daylilies look like they have really taken off.
cindy

Very pretty iris. Your daylilies look great and your bed looks so perfect with the mulch in place.
Val

Val,
That mulch is worrying me to death since the voles tunnela are hidden by it.

Cracking the concrete. I will put Miracle Grow on them in the next couple of days, and hope to get the foliage sprayed with seaweed too...we'll just see how it goes.

Cindy, it is a pretty little thing. The colors are really nice.
kay

Ooohhhh...I got a few of these from a friend last year, but had no idea what they were called. Thank you for helping to identify this iris for me!!! In lily forum, no less!