Yes, that's a silly title.
But you know what is not silly?
The brilliant bloggers who identified the ugly lumps
in my garden yesterday as Iris rhizomes!
See these fellers? These lumpy, fleshy, creepy looking guys?
Yesterday I called them tubers and wondered what they were.
Well, put a bridle on me and call me Trigger -- 'cause my blogger buds pointed out that
these ugly goobers are not parsnips gone rogue, or even tubers, but are actually
Iris factories (aka rhizomes) and that in a few weeks this will be sticking out of them:
Or this:
And we can't forget this:
Up until now, the iris rhizomes have been quite well behaved; they never before clawed their way up
out of the ground, scaring the daylights out of the unsuspecting ignorant homeowner (meaning me).
Who knew this ruckus was going on under all that snow for all those weeks -- so much writhing and heaving!
Our gardens have rich private lives, ladies.
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| Iris pics from 2010 at That Old House |
And the good news is that I can pretty much leave the plug-uglies lying out
all nekkid and exposed and don't have to cover them with soil; modest they are not.
And who are we to judge?
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Happy Wednesday to all; those spring blooms are not far away now! -- Cass
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