Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Historic Bearded Iris Bed #2  Iris Bed #2, mostly historic irises, almost set up for winter.  I'll harvest the big basil plant, and ...

Bearded Iris raised beds. Not much to see with the irises.  Sweet alyssum, marigolds are taking more space than I expected.  Swiss chard...

New Iris Order from Schreiner's  Iris order from Schreiner's came today.  As in previous years, the rhizomes are very big, firm,...

 Raised bed for heritage irises and herbs.  A couple of irises are currently blooming.  Several more are in bud.  The later ones are from ...

Iris and herb bed Lorelei Iris germanica NOID from Tennessee Los Coyotes The iris and herb bed.  Most of the newest he...

Last summer I rescued these miniature irises from neglected location. I was certain there were blue ones and yellow ones. Turns out they a...

Second order came today from Old House Gardens. Website oldhousegardens.com Eleanor Roosevelt. Introduced in 1933. From the Heritage Iris...

Not much I can do at the moment. Brief puttering and thinking about stuff. Quite some time back I ordered some heritage iris rhizomes. B...

Vegetable bed.  I temporarily added a couple of irises, I didn't want in the one iris bed so far.  Also some raspberries from home.  If ...

This is the iris clump, I uncovered and weeded to rejunenate.  That was a few weeks ago. Southeast side of the house, raised area. Growing...

From December 2006, same dogs, 6 years younger.  Different fireplace. Tomatoes Summer 2006.  I think this was one of my better crops. ...

Here is Romeo, produced by Millet et Fils in 1912. I bought it mail order this summer. Having run out of room, I planted it in a container. ...

Here is the raised bed I prepared for irises. I scratched in Mycorhizal inoculant around the better looking iris plants, and left the sad l...

The 3rd raised bed is completed. Soil is from a pile behind the house. Again, mixing with compost as I filled. Maybe about 20% compost ...

Repeating a prior post, here is the remaining rhizome from Iris "Diety", which developed a rot disease and the leaves rotted off,...

This is a bit of an experiment. These were close-out, and not too special looking. Maybe different enough from my existing irises to add t...

This one was 'Diety'. It is a new rhizome. I noted the leaves were turning yellow, and on inspection saw that the leaves were rott...

These varieties are from Old House Gardens , and the photos are theirs. I hope it's OK that I post them - given that I link to their we...