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My Flag Iris are in bloom right now, so that's today's beautiful Garden Pic: Flag Iris are an Iris for outdoors. They love ponds and bogs and drainage ditches---any place where their feet can get wet, at least sometimes. To bloom well, they like partial shade to full sun. The leaf blades are very tall--36 to 45 inches. And they spread gradually, too, so you do want to place them where they can do so. Mine are in my rain garden. I'll probably need to thin them out a little in the fall. Today's Project was general clean-up.  I worked on the north side, trimming Ivy and mowed just that side. I mowed because I wanted some cuttings mulch to put down over cardboard I laid in a bed and over newspaper I put around my Gerbers. Yesterday I cleaned up Siberian Iris row in the front corner bed, which was full of last years dead leaves and cleaned up the patio area in back. I actually finished the patio clean-up today and put out the chairs. I walked back by t...

It started off drizzly and chilly, though, now that it's mid-afternoon, the sun has popped out! Today's Garden Pic is a nice shot of one of my yellow Flag Iris blossoms. They have a wide, flatish faces and enjoy wet or boggish areas, drainage ditches or along side ponds, etc.  This one is among those in my rain garden and more are in the back corner that's both shady all the time and fairly boggy after a heavy rain.  The blades are tall: 30 to 40 inches in height, so they remain impressive spires even after they're done blooming, even through winter. rogress on my block garden edging project: Finished arranging the blocks and put mulch down in the area behind the blocks, which is covered in landscape plastic, which allows rainwater in, but keeps weeds out.  Looks good.  What remains is planting the 5 spaces between blocks marked with red dots. I have some wild flower seed my sister sent me I'll use in the middle pace, plus assorted other...