I finally have an iris blooming. It seems to not be the right climate here for iris to do well. But, I keep trying. I really think the extra cold winter we had made a huge difference in everything this year. What survived the winter seems to have a new lease on life with lots of color and growth. The pink in the background is prairie verbena and the silver in the bottom left corner is gray santolina. It only survives because it's growing in half dirt and half rocky road fill at the very edge of the curb. Lots of good drainage. However, it's never bloomed here. Up north it was rampant and bloomed every year.

Today, I'm working on a quilt. Maybe soon, some pictures of it in progress.