November 12. Answering the question of which iris is my favorite would be almost as difficult as answering the question of who is my favorite child, but right now I am casting a very fond eye at my Iris cristata.
This is one of the edging plants I wrote about at the beginning of October. By the end of October, the overall color is yellow-green, which looks terrific next to the well-hydrated lawn.
Within a week, the color goes largely to gold and straw,
…and two days later, we had our first snow.
These irises are very pretty dusted. A few days later, there was no trace. We had 11 inches of snow on Veterans’ Day that covered everything—but that’s another post.
November 27. That snow was washed away in today’s soaking rains and crazy winds. We got off easy; a large portion of the country is getting pummeled with snow and crazy winds. As winter threatens to settle in, the foliage got raked off with all the other leaves, and the little bear claws of next spring are already evident. It was so dark all day that an older picture will have to do. I love the bear-claw stage. The irises look like they are trying to escape as they shoot right over the nearest brick border, but they do not seem to be able to get a grip in the lawn, so they stay contained.