Colorchallenge Wednesday - Yellow

There was a huge flower bed full of several different varieties of Irises when we moved into our current home. These are lovely flowers but as you can see this Yellow version was one of the few to actually bloom this season. The problem being that the location that was chosen to plant these bulbs was in poor soil that packed down hard, and the bulbs had multiplied to the point where they were crowding each other out.

In order to solve this problem I dug up the entire bed of flower bulbs and moved them in small batches to a new location along a picket fence, leaving plenty of space between batches. The soil will only be slightly better for them in their new location, but the fence will supply support for the stems and I will have solved the overcrowding problem. Someone on here needs to remind me to firtilize them next Spring.

As the plants grow and again multiply and start to crowd each other out, I will start removing a few every year and either transfer them to a new location in our yard, or I will give them away to someone worthy of their beauty.

After removing all of the Iris bulbs, dirt attached, from the old flower bed I replaced that dirt with fresh clean topsoil and mixed it with rich mulch out of my pile of leaves, grass clipping, and kitchen slop that had been decaying for the past three years. In place of the irises I planted Mexican Petunias. My wife and I became familiar with this plant when escorting home an elderly member of our Church, she had a large patch of them right in front of her carport and they were just stunning. I will be posting photos of these beautiful flowers in the near future, and at the rate that they are growing and spreading I think they will completely fill this newly reconditioned bed within a few short years.

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