Bulbs: an update

Remember those bloom-phobic Irises I was writing about some time ago? Well, somehow, some way they went from this. . .





That's to say spindly, stalky, bloom-less little reminders of just how little I know about this gardening thing.




To this. . .
















Not bad for an amateur, no? What really threw me off was how they were the first ones up-- I mean they lapped all the other bulbs by weeks-- yet the last ones to bloom. Go figure.