What Once Was - Is No More

I have been spending some time cleaning out all of the gardens around the house. With the weather being so warm, some of the day lilies are still trying to grow. Once a good hard freeze, they will finally quit trying to grow and they will go dormant. Until then it seems like every couple of weeks I cut them down to just above ground level. Below are the last couple of irises that are blooming. This is the first year that they have bloomed so late in the year. It must be the warmer weather.