Flowering Plants

Our Irises are coming out.  They are in a few places around the yard but there is one place they are prominent.  Near the back door.
They never last long.  About a day each really.  They are a “here today and gone tomorrow” thing.  But there are ways they make up for the flowers being so short lived.  They are prolific.  I never cease to be surprised how many there are.  The other way they make up for it is by in my opinion sheer beauty.
I actually don’t even know where the ones we have came from.  I know I am good at forgetting what they look like, but I am also always impressed by them when they bloom.
They are fairly forgiving to.  I have only just started to water regularly in the last couple of months.  Before that it was very hit and miss.  But every year they flowered.  I guess I have been motivated by some plants I have in a pot.  I got them because they are perennial flowering plants.  They actually really are that, but water does seem to help.
Mostly in the past I was good with plants that thrived on neglect.  But the way these ones droop when they need water has caused me to change my ways.  I water them when they need it and water the rest of the plants at the same time.
We do have other Iris’s scattered in the front yard and they are coming out at the moment too.  They last longer.  I really like the randomness of them and the pleasant surprise of a flower hidden away.  It really could bloom unseen.  But it is seen, and I like it a lot.
We also have water Iris’s which come out most years.  I am not so sure they will be out this year as I have not been so good at supplying the water to them.  I water the back but am not so diligent with the front and that is where they are in a fake garden bowl.
The bow was bought from a nursery that no longer exists.  I got pots from a place that no longer exists too.  Both have been replaced either by a gym or car yard.  I really enjoyed going to both as they has stuff that was not seen everywhere,
Oh well I do enjoy the yard.  I love the flowers that come out on plants.  They are just doing their thing and I like their thing a lot.