Yellow Iris are Blooming

It was chilly out on the Hill this morning but we did not have frost. A couple of people in the office said that they had to scrap ice from windshields. Last weekend I had a load of landscape gravel delivered and, with some helping hands I have begun to create a drystream bed. We got this much of it done when the heavens opened up and rain came down in buckets. Hopefully will get back out there by Friday.

This bed of Iris was here when I arrived. It had some type of tree growing in the center along with a thicket of blackberry briers around and in it. The tree we took down and the briers I have tried to remove. One thing I have found is that deer do not care for Iris or Jonquils.
Standing on the walk that leads to the Wash House and looking up gives one the idea of just how steep my Hill really is. The bed of Iris that is faintly visible in the upper left corner is the one in the picture above.

More Flowers

One of these days my acre and half may become over run with flowers and trees and shrubs but for now I seem to be making slow progress. I was out digging again yesterday evening after work. My Iris are blooming and they are beautiful. This is the first year the reblooming ones have flowered. I'm curious to see how they perform. The blooms on my regular Iris are huge. I have yellow, lavender and blue all in the same bed and although there is only one blue it really shines.