Construction narrowly missed a cemetery in the town, where horses are corralled by rock walls and scatterings of purple and violetflowers from bougainvillea vines and jacaranda trees compete with the view of a creek that is littered with garbage.
In my yard I grow a type of bearded irises called 'Eternity, ' which puts out violet-scented white flowers not just in spring, like most irises, but again in the fall.