OsteInmar
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Up here, the wild Iris is jet blue--blue flag, they call it.Wow!
I saw a mass planting of daffodils like that once on the highway in ..St. Louis, I think. It's so beautiful, especially since when we left home at 5 am. that morning, there was two feet of snow on the ground.
I bet that was stunning. Yellow flowers are my favorite, very cheery and friendly. The yellow Louisiana Iris tops my list of native wildflowers. They grow like weeds.
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We have a blue variety but it is not as vivid as yours. I am going to plant them around my oaks. Live Oaks' have roots above the surface as well as below, and you can't get a lawnmower around them to get the grass/weeds. It is common to plant flowers around them.
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To look like this except with irises...a lot of them (5 feet deep to surround roots)
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This one didn't turn out very pretty so I've got 4 more trees like that. Maybe I'll get it right lol.
It is impossible to have such an oak in the course of life.
I planted an oak from an acorn in 2002
Now it looks like this:
Spruce, which is nearby, has grown since 2007.