garden magic
Resting, springing, refreshing, relaxing.
My irises are blooming!!! We transplanted these last year from a tiny flowerbed where they were all cramped together… my husband and I dug them up, split them, and replanted around fifty bulbs… and I had NO idea if they would bloom this year or in a year or two or if they would even survive! But I hoped and hoped and hoped. I watered all those fifty bulbs every day, usually twice a day, for weeks, to bring them back from their shock of transplant and the scorch of the August sun. We mulched them and hoped they would strongly do their thing underground over the winter. We cut them short on top, so the bulk of their energy could go towards establishing roots instead of taking care of tall stalks. I loved the whole thing.
And last night…
Jake showed me one in the front yard that has a bud on it, and I checked the bigger backyard flowerbed and discovered… not one, not two, but these THREE beautiful, giant, almost-open blooms on a an amazingly tall stalk!
Sorry for the poor quality photo, which Portrait Mode poorly blurred and differentiated… 😜
We didn’t even know what color they would be! What a perfect and stunning discovery!
I am so excited!!!
If you get tired, you feel crispy and scorched, you have the shock of transplant or change or unknowns… hang in there. Keep digging down deep with your roots. Keep reaching for the sun and soaking up the water. We always bloom again.
To the irises coming back way better than before!!!
(Also, how cool is the science and magic of this gardening wonder??? Dig them up! Split them! Replant them and take good care of them! They just needed a little room! It’s going to look worse before it looks better, and then they’re going to return to their full glory, except — better than before!)
