Monday, May 20, 2013

A Little Utah in Kentucky Soil...

When we moved to Kentucky, we spent our first Christmas on a driving trip to Utah. Claude's sister, Joann, had beautiful purple irises which, if I remember the story correctly, have been from other family flower beds in Utah. Jo dug up some of these and sent them home with us.

We planted them under the trees on the hill which is our back yard. They didn't thrive there very well, probably because it was too shady. But they did live and multiply some.

Last summer we moved them to the flower beds Claude built on the hill to use as garden plots for us. After a year of beds full of beautiful tomato plants and absolutely no tomatoes to eat, we determined no more garden in those beds. We moved the irises to the top bed and placed them around three blueberry bushes.

This is the result this summer.  We have a little Utah in this Kentucky soil of ours. It is just beautiful. The added bonus is that the blueberry bushes have little flowers on them as well. I'm sure we'll feed the bird population in Sadieville quite well once these blueberries are established. But we are happy with the results so far.

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