{"id":6060,"date":"2018-08-29T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:39:34","slug":"iris-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/iris-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melissasinclair.stevens\/posts\/pfbid02hCjeF9B6nFbtLB4qQKPj2AsBTEDyPy7jDX8FKh6rcsoZrc3hvMgeBjcAwaLPqJzFl?__cft__[0]=AZacmqvOrJojD9KEanRdXA0AGhP8kPm_8nYe0I3JRUj2GgmRzTNbSLBa2nN1tMqcPFyVFvDH5bqPpzXB5lbTOTKxG6tiKtaoTNp49TULDWTtfP0Hth6nZXmNrnxeOuboyUhGjNdaE1VPnTMcfawlluw72LzPZg96N5Lh-plIm34a8g&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\"><strong>August\u00a029,\u00a02018<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Shared with Your friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We gardeners have our phases and about 20 years ago I fell for bearded irises. I had the Schreiner&#8217;s print catalog memorized and could amaze my non-gardening friends with my ability to identify each iris by name. (Gardeners know this isn&#8217;t much of a feat as we spend hours comparing photos and so, of course, we know the names of our irises, roses, daylilies, daffodils, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of mine recently took a class on gardening and listening to her excitement sparked my own. After all, in Austin, now&#8217;s the time we usually restart our gardens after our horrible summer&#8230;and even though the weather isn&#8217;t cooperating, the urge remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I went online and ordered half a dozen irises from Schreiner&#8217;s. Their annual sale coincides with the best time to plant in the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did I give up on irises? In 2002, we had a really wet July and most of the fancy bought ones rotted. Then my yard got too shady. Then my knees gave out and I couldn&#8217;t be bothered with digging them up and dividing them. Then we had the horrible year 2011 of 90 days of 100\u00b0F or hotter&#8230;when I gave up on gardening altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why rekindle my romance? Well, I cleared out a whole section of yard when we had planned to build the ADU and cut down some trees. So now I have a big blank canvas in full sun to fill. And life&#8217;s too short not to enjoy a flirtation&#8230;even if I know the relationship is fleeting. When these die, there will be another year and different irises to desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When these die, there will be another year and different irises to desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}