Beautiful first bloom of the year for my pseudacorus.
Many years ago, when I was first given the start of this plant, my friend called it by its botanical name. You may know it as "yellow flag". It is listed as an invasive plant, but I have been very careful with it. I use it as a wind break for other flowers.
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Yesterday, It was just too muddy to be working in either the vegetable or the flower gardens.
Despite the sign....it is not easy to keep the mud out of the back entrance.
There is a good reason why it is call Blackland...the earth, here, is very black and sticky when it is wet. My shoes had mud stuck to the bottoms and the rug now needs a good washing. That's the bad news.
The good news is this beautiful Blackland Prairie will grow almost anything.....
Meggie Mac
What a beautiful yellow iris. I have purple iris in my garden but it will be before they flower.
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Elna
Hello Elna...welcome to my blog. Yesterday, I read some of your post on Elna-Sudden. I can't make the translater work, but I did google some of your Swedish words to know what you were saying.
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ReplyDeleteMy mother must see your garden.. She likes flowers so much. But She has not got any garden she is trying to grow flowers at home. She will feel that she is in heaven If she looks your garden.. Very beautiful garden but very hard work.. Best wishes..
It is hard work...but the rewards are great. Your mon is doing a great job with her plants in the windows.
DeleteThat soil sounds wonderful - around here it is mostly clay, so it needs an awful lot of work to loosen it up and make it workable. Your photographs of that yellow iris are wonderful. I love the smell of the air after some rain - less thrilled about the mud though! I hope your stock pond has filled up.
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine...I plan on checking the pond tomorrow. Today it would be too muddy for walking. The soil is so sticky it can literally pull your boot off!
DeleteI know all about trying to keep mud and dirt out of the house..especially with dogs coming in and out! This sounds like an infomercial but have you seen the Swiffer Vaccum? It is a Swiffer and vacuum together and perfect for cleaning dirt and dust off of hardwoood floors and non-carpeted surfaces. It vacuums and swiffers at the same time...really does the job! I use mine so much that it can barely stay charged! We are about to be in the same situation as you with the rain - they are predicting four days of nothing but storms....there goes my gardening this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the advice...I'll check it out on my next trip to walmart.
DeletePretty Iris! In the Mo Bootheel where my parents were raised was rich black dirt they called gumbo and was wonderful to grow cotton in which can deplete soil badly over time. Now out there they have rice fields too! Have not been there in many years so hard to imagine.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably the same kind of soil. I do add peat to loosen it. My land must be rich in nutrients. I had to google Mo Bootheel to find out where that is...thanks for the geography lesson.
DeleteLove your pictures and the name of your blog! Spring is definitely here! Our soil is sandy, but it depends on where you are. A few miles down the road where I used to live the soil was heavy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by my blog. I read some of your posts yesterday on Homemaking Dreams. Love the red chair ideas. I guess you can grow strawberries in your sandy soil...
DeleteThey are so pretty.....jealous it snowed here yesterday!
ReplyDeleteYour time is coming...for spring and warmer weather!
DeleteYour photos are amazing. We have yellow irises in the back garden here- you're right about them being invasive. I pulled some out when I tidied up the garden last week as they are threatening to overrun the rockery area. We also have blue irises, which I absolutely love - they grow in both back and front.It will be quite a while before any of them show any signs of flowering, so I'm enjoying seeing yours! Thanks Meggie. x
ReplyDeleteIn writing this post, I did some research on the yellow flag. Just a note to you, Scarlet, and anyone else that reads this.....everything about this plant is poisonous. So be careful to wear gloves when pulling them up or separating the rhizomes. I certainly will, the next time I work with them.
DeleteBeautiful! We have them and call them Siberian Iris and yes, they do spread! Thanks for commenting on my blog and I just wanted to let you know that you are a no-reply blogger so I couldn't reply to your email. If you need help let me know.
ReplyDeletePretty flower. Interesting that it is that poisonous. What happens if a pet rubs up against it and then licks it's coat? (And I have cats who taste anything green -- they destroy cat grass.)
ReplyDeleteI have no idea how much it rained around here. Some of the lower dry bed crossings flooded. We've got sticky, slippery clay here. It's not deep. Dig a couple of inches and you hit limestone rocks.