Friday flowers: Iris

    

Iris, photographed this afternoon here. (Click to enlarge). From left to right, top row to bottom, they are:
spuria carthaliniae, unknown, lactea,
clarkei, versicolor, versicolor group,
chrysographes dark form group and then single, chrysographes (pale).

Comments

[Donna]

Hi Karen: The iris photos are wonderful. Our iris are just about to bloom here. We have had a cooler spring, so they are a little later than usual, but the warm weather has now arrived, so they should be in their glory very soon. Thanks for posting these, I always love flower photos.

[fiona]

Once again, what fabulous photos. And I love all of their true names. Thanks!

[Maureen]

I love iris, probably because they were the first things I grew in the little patch of garden my father gave me as a child. I didn't know there was such variety, though. Lovely pictures.

[Peter the flautist]

Maureen, have a look at the "Juno" group of iris which originate in Mesopotamia if you would seek an even greater variety of exotic colours and forms. See many of them here http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/JunoIrises

Dark Puss

[Maureen]

Thank you, Peter, for the superb link. I can see my autumn planting will be very interesting.