Looking for work payday loans in ct When I moved into Spring Cottage eight years ago I was faced with a bare garden and wanted to fill it as quickly as possible. One of the first things I planted, more in hope than expectation, was an unsold tall bearded iris from our village fete. It has thrilled me ever since, thriving on the edge of a sunny path with its dusky maroon falls, as tactile as velvet, under smoky upright petals. It looks violet in duller light but warms up to cocoa-pink in sunlight. Floriferous and feminine, it’s quite unlike some of the heavier modern irises with over-ruffled flowers, and the flowers seem to shrug off rain. Even better, it has flowered every year – come drought or deluge.