Shave softly and carry a BIG brush
Thanks Dave, LOL...the brush is actually not that big, at only 24mm. The handle is just longer.
Good stuff Josh!
Got to go over your favorite soaps video this morning while doing yard work...who knew such a tough guy would be so into flowers! ?
In all seriousness though, killer line up! It was cool to see a couple little known soaps suggested by other members sneak in there!
HAHAHAHA...well, as to the flowers, I actually have an explanation for that. My grandmother (paternal), would always grow large bearded irises, dozens of varieties. If you've never been around multiple varieties, you wouldn't realize that each coloration variant has a distinctly different scent to it. Some are extremely "floral", while others are almost cloyingly sweet, and others that have a spiciness to them. It's probably the most diverse flower, from a scent perspective, that I've run across.
So, my dad took up the hobby at a relatively young age, (in his mid 30's), and began producing his own hybrid variants. He would cross pollinate different varieties to create new colors, and of course, scents. This was along with tree peonies, peony bushes, dhalia's, tiger lilies, and roses. (the roses were more my mother's) Taking care of great bearded iris is a pretty intensive stuff, as each rhizome, (root bulb), needs to be taken out of the ground in the fall, cleaned up and stored over the winter. Then periodically through the spring and summer, you need to watch for indications of Iris Borers; grubs which live in the rhizomes and destroy the plants. If you get those, you have to dig up each flower, scrape out the borer and the entire section of rhizome they've eaten or destroyed. There is no insecticide that will prevent these either, just good old fashioned attention to detail and manual labor.
Eventually, dad gave up on Iris due to the upkeep necessary, and concentrated on his Dhalia's...which he sold to local florists for a period of about 10 years. He would routinely get blooms of larger than 12" on some of his variants...one that I remember was larger than an adult human's head! Needless to say, whenever I get settled back stateside, I'll be trying my hand at gardening. Though not sure I'll be doing Iris, as the time involved is quite intensive, and I don't think we'll be in a climate that is conducive to growing them outside of a greenhouse.
OK, Josh, you've taken Eric's vocabulary gold star and claimed it for yourself by using the word, "verdant", in a sentence!
LOL...thanks Chris!
