Trowel and Error

[ParisGal]

That looks very much like an iris, but it's odd that it's flowered now, they're usually out in May (there's a festival here to celebrate them!)

[Demelza]

That's beautiful Demelza! Some sort of iris??

Ouch, I weeded the drive a few weeks ago, it's the worst job. While I was doing it, a small boy asked his mum what I was doing, she explained and he said " Oh like Nana?" . On their way back round he exclaimed "
She's STILL there!" Yes thanks, I'm elderly and stuck doing a job that takes forever.

That is exactly how I felt!

The leaves look iris (or even gladioli) like, but yes, it's strange it's flowering now! The mini blue iris bulbs I planted in the same bed came out in the early summer.

[Mountain Goat]

It is! Yes, surely May for most irises? I know reticulata irises are early spring but it doesn't look like one I don't think? (awareness of what they look like limited to a couple I've seen, maybe there are ones that look totally different). I guess it's something that's got very confused with the weird weather, it looks very exotic so probably even more confused.

An iris festival sounds lovely.

[FiveO'Clock]

That looks like a Mexican Tiger flower, they bloom in the late summer.

[Mountain Goat]

Brilliant Five!!

[absley]

Beautiful flowers Demelza.

I left my dahlias in the ground, Nana Goat...

I am never going to be sort of person who digs things up for winter, so maybe their days were always numbered. I'm not sure about the gaura and over wintering though - I think mine may have got swamped by other stuff, not sure what the issue would have been for my friend, but hers was not new.

I meant to say before, the other colour we've got is SO MANY autumn flowering cyclamen, scattered all over the place, which is really odd as don't remember any flowering last year. I'm not really a fan (and find their curly tendrils icky when i dig them up) but my Mum has a soft spot and associates them with my Dad, so they'll stay.