Bachelor Button Caldera

some news from the home garden and how what I teach sticks with me into the weekend ...

I woke this morning and looked out the bathroom window to see if it had rained and it had, again... is that 11 straight days, but there was also a flash of violet...

a blanket of irises in bloom. these are tiny and are not even close to knee high...

This week in Geology class we were speaking about calderas (Spanish for cauldron/kettle). 8000 years ago 12 cubic miles of earth erupted out of a mountain in southern Oregon. 15 years ago I stood on the rim looking down at what 45 feet of snow a year has created in that mountain which had collapsed into its hollowed out self... Crater Lake. A national park that so wants fishing that you don't need a license and there is no limit. just no live bait, please.

So when I saw what had happened to my Bachelor Buttons as I walked back to the irises, a blog post title came into being. I can't wait for them to bloom...

Here is a photo from last year of what is about to emerge from all those buds. A division of both of these perennials may just have a future at the school.