Irises!
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When we bought our house in Missouri there were already some irises. They didn’t bloom prolifically because the rhizomes were too crowded. I dug some of them up and planted them in the area where we had a pine tree fall (and was removed). This is their second year in that location, and they are blooming wonderfully. They seem to survive wind and rain without blowing over better than in the original bed…which is blooming better now too.
I cut ones that had blown over to enjoy inside…..and did a round of macro images of the flowers while they still had rain drops on them.
The iris rhizomes I dug up at my parents’ house before they moved in January 2024 did not bloom at all last year. There are not many of them yet, but they seem larger (both the flower and the stem) that the others. They are a burgundy/mauve color too! Hopefully they will proliferate and make the whole area along the fence an iris bed!
