Hello:

There is so much happening in the garden it is hard to keep up with it all.  One neighbor worked for two days with my husband on that wonderful (!?!**) mower and still it doesn't work.  My other neighbor loaned us a bush hog for the tractor.  Most of the area around the house has been mowed.  Some of the dandelions in a meadow had to stay to feed the Goldfinches and Sparrows.  That last frost got most of the apple blossoms so the dandelions won't be needed under the trees to help the fruit ripen.  The birds are so much fun to watch as they put on an olympic show to bend the dandelions to reach the seeds.

The Iris are blooming, so I thought I'd share them.  I've never seen one with four sets of petal like this before, or so dark purple.

 

This one amazes me how pure white the top is.  The fall is quite unique in combining the deep purple, tiger stripe and yellow.  It is somewhat hard to see, but inside the white is another tiger pattern.

These are just two of the varieties here.

Enjoy,

Bette