The Irises have arrived, well, some of them....

These purple irises are like Tiger lillies in NJ, everybody has this color. These girls opened up a couple of days ago. I originally scavenged these babies from an abandoned house where I used to live.

This beauty was a nice suprise today! She comes from my Dad's gardens before he went all daylilly on us.

This yellow cutie is courtesy of my old neighbors. A few weeks ago they brang me a huge bucket filled with more! Next spring is gonna be YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW! Of course though I also have tons of the purple Japanese irises to, again from Dad's, he had ALOT of them. So many in fact, that my mom just mows them over after they bloom.....while we are still in the process of taking them out & giving them new homes.

Now, this baby, I've been waiting all week for. Or actually three years. Transferred these from Dad's garden three years ago and  they FINALLY decided to grace me with some blooms. I 've always loved these, BUT, in Dad's garden they were much, much darker. They looked almost black and like they were made of velvet.

So why is it that this patch of the garden is the only one with irises blooming?


AH, whose knows! I'm still waiting on other irises to let me know what I planted to begin with. The only other color that I have gotten blooms from since the initiall transplanting are a gorgeous bunch of white irises that just bloomed last year for the first time. I know I have peach ones somewhere, and the rest well, who doesn't love surprises!!!!???