Tag Archives: irises

Irises changing colour

I live in downtown Toronto (Cabbagetown) and I have many irises in my backyard which gets full sun all day. All of my irises come up purple and yet I only planted white, pink, and black. One year I planted…

Transplanting criteria for Iris

I’d delayed transplanting these irises which weren’t blooming but they look better now, after years. Is the soil health the determinant of blooming?…

Something really digs my Irises

I took a photo of uprooted irises, after they bloomed. I decided to pull the grasses/weeds out from around the remaining leaves after the blooming. It seems that something just chewed away at the long remaining leaves, after my light…

Sparrows & Irises

What’s attractive, in overcast west-end Toronto, about these iris leaves? I tried to sneak up on the sparrows and catch them in the photo, They seem to be attracted to leaves or is it the possibility of worms rising with…