Irises
Posted by bindybb on December 1, 2008
Iris bank
(can anyone name the blue flowers – they are like mini agapanthus?)
The highlight of November was the flowering of the new Iris bed. Thanks to the Iris Garden at Motukarara and Lisa Ashworth’s donations I have created a bank of Iris. I count this as my greatest achievement – yes better than the MA! Not all flowered this year but it was still an amazing display. For some the short flowering defeats the purpose – somehow for me it just makes it more dramatic. Almost finsished now I am already anticipating next year!
The natives that form the backdrop to this garden are all sourced from the Motukarara DOC nursery and are the species that would have originally grown here. Decapitated pines are the remnant of the clean up after the storm of 2000. Chips on the path are from the trees that were removed for the building site.
