There comes a time when they have to go..

That was a big job Lincs, I used to have hundreds of Iris and they do overgrow, I know, but also they are b's to dig up too, hey it beats going to the gym anyway. The garden is looking good.

Everything is looking good, Lincs.
Assume we're talking flag iris here. I got rid of mine a couple of years ago, tho' as GM says, they're not the easiest to dig up!! Still have the odd one which survived the purge. I do like them but they are just too thuggish for my small garden.

They are Iris for the pond but they liked the garden as well, huge yellow ones in the fishpond, luckily the ones in the bottom pond are the smaller variety, blue ones and lovely when in flower, as you can see they have also gone mad, all in baskets as well but it certainly doesn't stop them....

Where did you get that bike ?

The iris have made lots of growth in the big pond here, but its ok....
Your garden does look nice x

We moved the bbq cover yesterday and woke up a toad!
Had to move him so rubber gloves on and a new home under the magnolia..

Job well done.

I like that you've now exposed a very pretty area Lincs - that conifer is just lovely.
Hope you aren't too achy and sore!

Really lovely. I love your garden. I'm sat in the garden reading this. I've been on at my husband about putting in a small pond for a while now and just (laughingly) said to him 'Well, she's got TWO ponds and I haven't even got one!' :-)

Diane the bike was a present to ourselves for our 40th anniversary, it came from Mr Scripps Garage in the village they use to film Heartbeat, I received a smaller one as a birthday present this year so I now have the start of a collection, lol....
Snoop there is nothing posh about me or my garden, lol, I'm hanging on but cannot wait to get eyes and knee sorted, bit annoyed at myself as I'm so careful when working inside and out and then twisted my knee getting into daughters car yesterday, felt quite sick at the time and had to count very slowly before telling my family that I was ok, we were in Scarborough at the time and I reckon they really wanted an excuse to pop into the hospital, its the one they use when filming The Royal, lol....

A job well done Lincs. I've got overgrown plants in my pond, but they are too heavy to lift out as they've escaped their large pots. I've no fish now so I don't suppose the frogs and newts object. I suppose I'll have to get a 'man' in if it gets too out of hand:-)

I have a man and his help was "Don't you hurt yourself" he earned himself a very dirty look, took the hint and retreated back indoors, LOL...

I'm slow catching up these days lol ...
You've done a good job of sorting the pond area out. I like the pebbles :o)

Lol Lincs, I meant the type of man you get in:-)))

Those Iris do spread and can take over, so, better out than in !!
Oh, and I think you we're given very good advice ... What would you do without him???? ;@))

They look so nice for a while and then suddenly....they end up everywhere obscuring many other attractive plants - I am speaking from experience here !!!
Really like your alterations.

Excellent blog, Lincs!
It's good to know irises can be bullies, as I will watch them like a hawk from now on. ;-)
I've PM'd you about your knee, incidently.