Iris Addict

I've been reading in various garden blogs that some gardeners can't be trusted to go to any store with a garden center without coming home with a carload of plants. Except for roses, I don't have that problem. My downfall is catalogs. All of those gorgeous pictures just scream "Order Me!". Bearing in mind that I have already ordered bulbs and plants from three catalogs, I am now agonizing over the latest Springhill catalog.

At first it was just going to be some more helleborus and primroses. The hellebores that I planted last fall are growing nicely and I have hopes that they will flower next spring. I would like to plant more. And I have expanded the bed where I have the primroses so more primroses are in order.

Then the iris caught my eye. Yellow Siberian iris would be great in the Yellow/Orange Garden. Look, PINK Siberian iris! And pink Japanese iris. And red too! I only have purple right now. Last year I ordered two iris, only one of which, Ace of Spades, came up. I can't remember what the other was. (That's one of the purposes of this blog. To record what I planted, where I planted it, when I planted it and occasionally, why I planted it). I have ordered two more varieties of iris , I'm planning on adding English iris next year and I'm toying with the idea of a whole new bed that could contain Dutch iris, among other things. It's beginning to dawn on me that I have an iris obsession.

I've narrowed it down to the yellow Siberian iris and another iris for the Purple Garden, Batik iris . I've wanted this one for a few years. It's a zebra iris. Now they have new colors, Gnu Flash which is gray, Tiger Honey in yellow and a pink called Baboon Bottom . I. Kid. You. Not. I don't care that it costs $7.99. It's a must-have. What a conversation piece. "And over here is my baboon's ass!"

I'm thinking of changing my blogger name to OldRoses&Iris.