Another specimen from the collection has blossomed - Iris magnifica. Originally from Uzbekistan, grown from seeds - I got more than a dozen flowering bulbs, all slightly different in shade and color.
I’ve come across a humorous American garden name for this plant—corn iris—and it really does look like it. When it bears fruit, it looks even more like corn.
Most of what I had was sold before we moved from Colorado to Florida to retire. I didn’t have much. Since being here I have found very little. I also sold my antique bottle collection all of them found while out bird/nature watching. I have only found 1 bottle since moving here but I also found an Antique Glass Fishing Float dating back to around 1905. It had washed up on a beach after storms in the Atlantic Ocean. This was a very rare find for the East Coast but I understand not so uncommon on the West Coast. I had a bunch of antique nails too. Also found out nature watching and visiting a local dog park in Colorado. In Florida everything decays quickly due to humidity or is buried under vegetation.
The most interesting part here is how you found a LOT of fossils. Where and how did you find them?
I found a lot at this place called Penn Dixie, it’s a fossil park that’s in my state. You pay to get in and then you can collect as many fossils as you want. I found an almost full trilobite fossil once. I also found a decent amount at various beaches, some of which you can see in the picture of my collection of beach stuff. I live near a beach and I go a lot in the summer where I walk along the shoreline to find sea glass and rocks. A lot of the rocks have fossils in them, most of them are horn coral. I also bought some as well from a store near me. And I also found some in random areas like parking lots and near traffic post things (sorry I don’t know what they’re called). Thanks for asking! :D
Another Juno -.Iris chrysopetala from Tajikistan, also grown from seeds, I only have one plant blooming so far, but several more are growing:
And this is the more common in gardens Iris bucharica. The bulbs were purchased from an elderly lady on a classifieds website:
And again Juno - Iris warleyensis originally from Uzbekistan. I bought a mature bulb from a collector’s nursery.
I got something in my collection that I haven’t seen anywhere else (though they are probably common I just don’t know the name haha), in my highscool there was a tree with these bumps:
I remember kicking them out and they just popped out of the tree, I have no idea what they are except they have beautiful marbling.
I am really enjoying seeing your flowers! They are absolutely stunning!
Those are small burls. Mini-versions of the ones woodworkers make burl bowls out of 
never knew they could be so small :0, always thought they were caused by some weird fungus are something
My field guides collection is very small compared to the other cool collections I just saw on this topic, but here goes:
I also have this soil collection, 7 different soils with different colors, but since they kept spilling out of the box, I’ve kept them tucked up in a place even my hand can’t reach.
Then there are two pods of the Entada creeper/Vine as well, and according to google, these are the longest pods of any legume in the world. Here, in Marathi, we also call it ‘Garambi’ and its a very, very thick vine, which was unfortunately/fortunately, thicker than me.
:O wow. That is really very cool
