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Japanese iris / Japanische Sumpf-Schwertlilie (Iris ensata)
Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
for my dear friend Christine_S.
Taken at the 2021 Water Iris Festival at the Mawatari Haniwa Production Ruins, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan
set of 5 - Iris flowers on display in Koraku En Gardens in Japan.
Some interesting info from Richard Barrett:
Iris ensata is one of the oldest cultivated plants known to horticulture. This because when the water iris flowers then it is time to plant out your rice plants in the paddies. Hence early farmers kept some of these plants around to indicate the when to plant and various varieties emerged due to diversity.
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This gorgeous Japanese Iris has dozens of large, lovely, blousy petals in lavender color with golden yellow markings in the center of the petals, it lives in my Oriental bed in the backyard.
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Iris ensata is the original species from which various horticultural derivatives collectively called the Japanese iris have been developed. At Higashiyama Botanical Garden, Nagoya, Japan.
名古屋市東山植物園のノハナショウブです。
This variety was developed by a samurai, and named "Goko no asobi" (Play or pleasure at 5 lakes). At Tokugawaen, Nagoya, Japan.
名古屋市徳川園の花菖蒲で五湖の遊という品種です。
taken at Heian shrine, Kyoto
Unfortunately, the flowers were already past their peak.
平安神宮で
少し見ごろを過ぎていました。
Japanese irises (Hanashobu; Iris ensata var. ensata) are horticultural varieties derived from nohanashobu (Iris ensata var Spontanea). At Tokugawaen, Nagoya, Japan.
名古屋市徳川園の花菖蒲です。
Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japonisme was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872. Whilst the effects of the trend were likely most pronounced in the visual arts, they extended to architecture, landscaping and gardening, and clothing. Even the performing arts were affected; Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" is perhaps the best example.
The other week, I had the great privilege of being taken to a private working flower farm, hidden in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges National Park in Silvan on the outskirts of Melbourne. The growers specialise in crocuses, orchids, rare species of plants from South America and California, heirloom peony roses and Japanese Water Irises like this one. These Japanese Water Iris blooms remind me of the ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints that first commenced the Japonisme craze that swept the Western World.
The term "Japanese Iris" encompasses three species of Irises cultivated in gardens or growing wild in Japan: hanashōbu (Iris ensata), kakitsubata (Iris laevigata) and ayame (Iris sanguinea). Of these three species, Iris ensata is the one most commonly referred to as "Japanese iris" outside Japan.
Japanese Iris (Iris ensata) 'Pink Frost.' The gardens are breathtakingly lush after a couple days of warm Spring/Summer rain. A perfect way to begin this first week of Summer. Enjoy it! :)
Taken at the 2021 Water Iris Festival at the Mawatari Haniwa Production Ruins, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan
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Taken at the 2021 Water Iris Festival at the Mawatari Haniwa Production Ruins, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan
Getting stir crazy, being delirious and seeing colorful bokeh after being cooped up for too long.
Iris bokehlicious at VanDusen Botanical Garden in BC Vancouver, Canada.
Japanese Water Iris
Iris ensata 'Lion King'
Iris Family : Iridaceae
This isn't exactly a wildflower ... except in certain parts of the world, but I have so many images of Japanese Irises that I've decided to intersperse a few each week with the cactus and succulents and maybe even a few cultivars such as dahlias and roses. We'll see.
Meanwhile, this plant used to be found all over this valley, but last year, 19 years into the drought, they all but disappeared. They do like water, and perhaps they were replaced by dry-gardens.
Anyway, Dietes is a genus of rhizomatous plants of the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866. Common names include wood iris, fortnight lily, African iris, Japanese iris and butterfly iris, each of which may be used differently in different regions for one or more of the six species within the genus.
Most species are native to southern and central Africa, with one (Dietes robinsoniana) native to Lord Howe Island off the coast of Australia. A few species have become naturalized in other parts of the world. THIS flower is an Iris ensata, and was taken 12 years ago at a ranch at the base of Mt. Diablo. Those were the days when I'd take Max for his mandatory (in his mind) noontime walk, and I'd hone my skills with the new second generation S3.
Close up of a roadside canal in Tsuwano. It is a tradition of Tsuwano to culture carp in the town canals originally for food.
Carp is a fresh water fish native to Europe and Asia.
Eurasian carp (Cyprinus carpio) occurs in Europe and Asia but the carp found in East Asia including Japan came to be treated as an independent species of amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus).
Nishikigoi (錦鯉) is its coloured variety created in Japan through selective breeding of wild carp. It is now an important export product.
Carp is considered an invasive species in North America.
The plant in the square base in the canal is a cultivar of Japanese iris (Iris ensata) that is native to East Asia. It blooms in spring.
Gyo'en is a Japanese garden along a stream that rises in a natural spring in the same site. It used to be an Edo residence of the I'i family, a major member of the Tokugawa shogunate. It was transferred to the royal family after the Meiji Restoration.
Gyo'en was a favourite place of Emperor Meiji who ordered to plant Hanashoubu (Japanese iris, Iris ensata var. ensata) along the stream.
Gyo'en is now an integral part of Meiji Jinguu.
Hanashoubu is a cultivar of Iris ensata.
Purple flowers in the back is probably Kakitsubata (rabbit-ear iris, Iris laevigata).
Both species prefer inundated soil and are native to Japan, China, Korea and Russian Far East. They have been popular objects of Japanese paintings.