Transplanting irises

Can one be allergic to heat? I feel under the weather and wonder if it is a late season hay fever, or just the body’s despair at yet more blasted heat.

Heatwave number three this year.

I realize that there is very little I can do in the garden right now. Unless I get up at 6am and go back out after 7pm. These are not sociable hours.

So I am snatching at tasks and doing that fast scuttle back inside when I realize I’m woozy.

At least my office is clean(ish).

And I’ve not written so many letters in ages.  I have a new journal just started. Transcribing all the information over is a happy afternoon of toil.

Oh and I’ve painted my new screen. I found this large four panelled (heavy) wooden screen in my favourite Depot Vente junk shop.

I shouldn’t call it junk. There are treasures there.

You just have to look beyond some surface decoration every now and then to find the beauty underneath.

Sadly this beauty did not stay on the screen .

She was very twee. At the moment I’m just pegging images onto a line of fishing line with little pegs. But I’ll put more effort into it later.

Because I can offer some garden news: iris transplanting.

It makes it sound very grand. But it’s simply a matter of getting a good fork under a clump of irises, heaving like mad. And then separating the bulbs into smaller groups.

Shove in a bucket of water for half an hour.

Dig a hole and replant.

Gee thanks. I thought this was a gardening blog. Details, techniques, advice.

Not today. Not in this heat.

I have lots of spare irises and they are all going to add a bit more green to the harsh lines of the new garden area.

And it’s the only thing I can do right now that says outdoor creativity.

I need to double the rows of plants. It looks like a fringe on a very sparse head.

So next week I should have more to tell. The heatwave is going to sort of break on Sunday, and then it just hots up again.

So no post on the weekend. I have house guests and entertaining and even I can’t eke out gardening news right now. Back Tuesday. Happy weekend.