the things that happen while you’re gone on vacation [g]

But before I launch into another round of Yellowstone pictures on my own journal, this is what I came home to. Along with a November-like storm of wind and rain as I came over Snoqualmie Pass yesterday afternoon.

My iris are blooming, my iris are blooming! As well as one of my clematis and a few other things [g].

The back garden, of course. The orange is nemesia. The chives are just about over, and the hardy geranium is just getting started. The rest have individual closeups.

This iris is from the first batch I bought five years ago. I have no idea what its name is at this stage of the game, but isn’t it dropdead gorgeous?

Another iris from that batch. I divided these a couple of years ago, and there’s another division of it blooming in my front flower bed, too.

Nelly Moser clematis, full blast with all the stops out (as compared to the last picture I posted of her with just a couple of blossoms open).

Hostas, coral bells, and bergenia (the succulent-looking thingy in front, which is not blooming ATM). The hostas really expanded while I was gone.

Bleeding heart, which is doing better but still not up to last year’s monster growth, hostas, and more containers. The tiny red blossoms are pineapple sage.

The front flower bed, replete with iris [g]. And dianthus, and flax, and pansies, and alyssum, and hardy geraniums, and…

This is supposed to be one of the new ones I’m supposed to have a label for. I mistakenly titled the image No Count Blues, but that’s not what it is. It might be Mary Frances, but it’s awfully blue as opposed to lavender for Mary Frances.

This is No Count Blues. It matches the picture exactly. The reason the flowers are leaning is because the stalk was leaning way over when I got home yesterday, and I staked it to vertical this morning.