{"id":1676,"date":"2017-04-28T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:56:47","slug":"georgia-irises-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"April Irises 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dutchirisblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1677\" class=\"wp-image-1677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dutchirisblog.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dutchirisblog-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/closeupbeardedpurpleirisblog2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1679\" class=\"wp-image-1679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/closeupbeardedpurpleirisblog2017.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/closeupbeardedpurpleirisblog2017-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/purplebeardedirisblog2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1678\" class=\"wp-image-1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/purplebeardedirisblog2017.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/purplebeardedirisblog2017-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pinkirisblog2017.jpg\" alt=\"Ga, Zone 7b Dutch Iris, Bearded Purple Iris, Pink Iris\" data-id=\"1680\" class=\"wp-image-1680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pinkirisblog2017.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pinkirisblog2017-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like their namesake in Greek Mythology, Iris- &#8220;the messenger goddess&#8221;, or &#8220;the rainbow goddess,&#8221; these beautiful flowers deliver the message that Spring has arrived, in all the colors of the rainbow. I only got a few bloom colors this year, and I am thrilled to have them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend generously dug them from her garden two years ago, and I transplanted them here. One purple bloomed the first year- from over a dozen transplants. Then, this year three purples bloomed, and an absolutely gorgeous pinky, mauve beauty. I&#8217;ve not looked up the varieties yet, but wanted to post this while they are blooming (except the Dutch iris- bloomed earlier this month).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enriched the heavy clay soil with my organic, homemade compost and fallen leaf mulch. I followed directions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irises.org\/About_Irises\/Cultural%20Information\/Grow_Bearded.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The American Iris Society&#8217;s website<\/a>&nbsp;on planting the rhizomes. They take a little time getting settled in, but are worth the wait for the spectacular flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like their namesake in Greek Mythology, Iris- &#8220;the messenger goddess&#8221;, or &#8220;the rainbow goddess,&#8221; these beautiful flowers deliver the message that Spring has arrived, in all the colors of the rainbow. I only got a few bloom colors this year, and I am thrilled to have them! My friend generously dug them from her garden &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April Irises 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,80,9],"tags":[36,78,46,82,29,81,38,28],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapeplants","category-perennials","category-photo-galleries","category-rhizomes","tag-bearded-iris","tag-deer-resistant","tag-drought-tolerant","tag-dutch-iris","tag-georgia","tag-iris","tag-perennial","tag-zone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}