No lilacs or peonies for me either. Nor hanging baskets of those beautiful fushias. And I'm not supposed to be able to grow bearded iris either (beardless iris are a yes, i.e. Louisiana iris). But I decided to try the cemetery iris because they were a family "heirloom" of my husband. It took a couple of years for the rhizomes I took from his father's homestead to bloom, but eventually they acclimated here.
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Donna, Zone 9, Texas Gulf Coast
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