The Maple Garden is currently being graced by irises of red. Iris nelsonii, which is a Louisianna iris known as Abbeville Red, has grown like nuts in my garden. It isn’t red red, but a wine red, fading to pinky red as the flowers age.
Iris nelsonii
These spiders seem to have found their happy place.When the Iris nelsonii had just started flowering. There are a lot more flowers out now.This photo was taken 11 months ago after the great planting. The irises are at the back on the left.Yup, things grow like nuts here! I haven’t fed them or done anything to the soil in this bed. The soil is very good.
I will have to take a photo of the whole Maple Garden, but in the mean time, here are some plants from the other end of the bed.
Festuca actae, Festuca glauca, Heuchera ‘Amethyst Myst’, Heuchera americana ‘Green Spice’ and Farfugium japonicum ‘Crispata’.
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