Mid-Atlantic Gardening: 2009 Gardening Year Highlights, 1 by sallyg

sallyg wrote:
Boy you guys can chat up a storm when the timing is right
Orange flowers--I let it be known I would accept peach colored iris, and critter gave me two or three. I thought they would give a refreshing contrast to my current purple and lavendar iris . Fine line between orange and peach flowers. But this coming year will be the bloom and I don't have the names handy! And I have also decided (lady) that iris really take maintenance because when I leave them alone I get huge thick clumps that leave big ratty holes in July. My goal would be individual rhizomes that I renew every other year probably, with other leafy things so there's no big holes.
But as for a highlight of 2009--probably that I took this from a pitiful stick in early 2008, survived awful mites last winter, and grew enough in 2009 to give me the first flowers. Plumeria. And the mites are back in force as we speak.
Well also getting Brugmansia sticks to four feet tall and some blooms too, in one year.