To continue on from my last post where I recommend that cost cutting can really help out if you are saving for something really big (gazebo, shed, greenhouse as pictured in one of those old fashioned British mysteries) I neglected to add that oftentimes the best plants are obtained from a friend, neighbor, or coworker when they are dividing or rearranging their own yard. 
In our first house I was over the moon for some bearded irises that my husband brought home from a coworker who was dividing her own garden. They were tall and elegant, and, best of all, needed no pampering or fussiness in order to be beautiful (they only need to be divided every 3 to 5 years, with the exception of siberian irises which need no division). Irises today are still my most favorite flower. I have several types in different colors.
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Sometimes I wonder if I may have planted too many irises, but since they are easy to divide and give away, none have gone the way of the compost pile. I can usually find someone thrilled to have the extras, with the one exception of a neighbor who declined my offer of irises because she did not feel that they bloomed for a long enough period. Of course, I disagree entirely, but to each their own (plus she is the one who kept planting multi-colored pansies with faces in the same planter each and every year so I took what she thought and promptly disregarded it.)
Though I will admit I do have some yellow siberian iris that do not trip my trigger. For some reason they like to bloom only halfway up the stem. In contrast to the delicate beauty of my purple siberian, well, they are a bit of a disappointment but I leave them in as I need the color contrast. (My yard is inadvertently heavy on the purple.)
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