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It’s Iris season.
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And at our house that means purple Japanese Iris.
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I prefer the smaller Japanese variety to the tall stalky bearded iris.
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More bang for your buck…
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And they spread evenly.
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Such a beautiful burst of violet.
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Shame they don’t last all season..
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River's world..... 
That’s the most impressive planting of Japanese Iris I have ever seen! Just beautiful!! I have a few scattered here and there.
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20 years worth of growth.
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♥♥♥
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I have lots of the tall bearded iris and can’t seem to find a place where they will do well. I get very few flowers.
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I had a variety of colors of bearded iris years ago. The blooms are impressive… when they bloom. But bring a rhizome in a northern climate meant they were always heaving out of the ground and looked ugly most of the year. I got rid of them and went with these. No regrets.
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I’ve considered getting rid of mine as well. They take up too much space for the small amount of pleasure they bring.
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It’s like a timewarp, going back to iris season. Here the daylilies and milkweed are blooming. (And some bushes whose name I don’t know but I like the flowers.)
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My daylilies are just starting to bud. We’re late on everything this year.
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Gorgeous!!!
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Thanks!
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We had those Iris’s in Washington state growing up. You brought back beautiful memories.
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Happy to!
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Our purple irises are done blooming now. They were so beautiful—I just wish they lasted a little longer. Don’t you?
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I do.
The beauty is much too fleeting…
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I agree.
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We can’t grow iris around here. I like yours all the more because I don’t see them often.
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We have the same iris at MarTar Manor, but alas, it has already come and gone. The season is much too short.
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