Today I returned for my 2nd year to a nearby small town for their Garden Club’s sale. A room of perennials — first-come, etc!
I got there about 8:20 and I assume over half was already gone. Sadly, one had a whole table of her loot including ALL the bleeding hearts. Now my heart was bleeding!
Large meat tray with at least 15 baby iris. The whole tray was $1. They kindly told me to put water in the tray once I got home since it has been raining for 4 days and I couldn’t plant outside. They really perked up with a drink of water.
For $13 total, I brought home:
2 mini ground covers for my hope-to-have fairy garden, $1
15 (at least) mini iris bulbs (above), $1
2 – 6″ pots full of small iris bulbs, $2 each
2 large pots of coral bells, $2 each
3 pots of grape hyacinths, 0.50 each
2 plants of lily of the valley, 0.50 each
2 small pots of columbine, 0.25 each
I visited with Mrs. E, who went to school with my MIL and is the mother to a friend at our church. I chatted with a lady my age that helped load up my car. I found a guild friend and we made plans for the end of the week pending the schedules for our men. Cold, wet, drizzle, but friendly shopping!
It will be awhile until the ground is dry and my hole digger is done with his crops but I have all but the mini iris and ground covers outside, protected by bigger plants. They got a HUGE gulp of rain yesterday and are eagerly awaiting warm & sunshine — like a few humans around here!!
and sew on... 
We, too, are waiting for warm, sunny days to stay!
I like Irises – always good as long the rhizomes get baked.
I had to do a google search on baked rhizomes… you had me confused as I’d not heard of baking them.
I learned from a BBC site to not bury the rhizomes all the way so they can be baked by the sun. I thought that when they were above the ground I needed to replant them. Thanks for the teaching you gave me!
My big striped leaf iris just opened yesterday! More to come later, I hope.