"Eye of Newt" bloomed this morning. I'm quite excited since it was new last summer and I hadn't seen exactly what it would look like. It is only about 6" tall and the flower is about 2" across with a definite eye on each fall.

Strange start to the bloom season here. I have daffs, tulips, and irises in bloom at the same time. I don't recall this happening before. The daffs and tulips are usually long gone before a bearded iris blooms. My first blooms started late last week on three IBs. I have some more showing color and one AB sdlg. is about to bloom. Several in this cross are budded, but the one showing color is the tallest. It will be a 3/8th arilbred, my first time to get seedlings from such a cross. I have about six survivors in this cross.

I also have a Louisiana that is well advanced.

Walter Moores

I'm jealous! I've still got a foot of snow over my gardens. Only place clear is where it was plowed.

Hi!Suenh: The snow is barely off the ground here (just outside Ottawa). The only thing blooming is croci and snowdrops. My first iris (with tiny stems of about 1 inch) is about a full month away - my TBs come into blooms around late May, early June.