This morning my first yellow iris was open, and this afternoon another half-dozen had followed suit. I expect an explosion of iris this week, and this is always when I mow the lawn, trim, and then take photos of the yard and house. It's the best it will look all year, for sheer flower power.

I have some blue iris this year, given by my next door neighbor. And she had a bag with a bunch of yellow ones "and there is this big glorious fancy one in there, but I couldn't tell which it was when I dug all of these up." So if I want to find it I have to plant all of them and wait till next year. I don't think I got that bag planted last fall. I have two boxes and another bag of sprouts so I'll put in a new bed out front. And hope no one out walking picks this one if it comes up down by the street.

Janie can tell you stories about yard flower poachers. So far I've been lucky and they've avoided me. There were some folks who got all of my next door neighbor's fancy pots on her front porch a few years back. We're a little gun shy about putting the dollars in pots and plants out again where someone might decide to do the five finger discount some day when no one is home.

SRS