Iris Flowers
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Back-lit, late sunny afternoon shot, reflector used. I kept my portrait lens wide-open and, secondly, sprayed the bush behind with water. All these conditions together produced the beautiful bokeh. Words are not enough to describe the beauty of the Iris. Processed in Luminar and macOS High Sierra photo editor.
The tall and elegant Dutch iris are blooming too...
Dutch Iris (Iris × hollandica, unknown variety), from our garden, 14.06.2021.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Iris flowers grown from a bulb.
Native to the Mediterranean and central Asian areas.
Also the source of orrisroot from which essence of violet perfume is made.
Have a good one
"What in your life is calling you, when all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, and the wild Iris blooms by itself… What still pulls on your soul ?"
Rumi Quotes (Persian poet, 1207-1273)
A close-up of the beard, so-called, on one of the flowers from one of our orange irises, last year.
You are invited to look at one of my iris Galleries, here: www.flickr.com/photos/martinlabar/galleries/7215762391058...
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
This is a hybrid iris, developed from species native to Portugal, Spain, and North Africa.
Photo taken while on my visit to the Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, Boylston, Ma. June 8, 2023.
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Nome latino:
Iris Barbata spp. o Iris Germanica
Famiglia:
Iridaceae
Le iris barbate sono molto facili da coltivare, si tratta di piante spontanee che nei giardini di campagna sono conosciute con il nome di giaggioli selvatici. Presentano un’interessante fioritura che varia di colore in base alla varietà (rosa, blu scuro, viola, arancio, porpora…). Fioriscono insieme alla rose, alle peonie e aquilegie
L’ iris barbata appartiene al genere Iris, questa pianta erbacea perenne rizomatosa sfoggia vistosi fiori e se ne conoscono circa 250 specie originarie dell’Europa, dell’Asia e del Nord America.
A seconda dell’altezza di sviluppo si dividono in barbate alte, barbate intermedie e barbate nane.
Le barbate alte si sviluppano in altezza fino ai 90 – 120 cm. Fioriscono entro maggio.
Le barbate intermedie si sviluppano in altezza tra i 30 e 70 cm e la fioritura si presenta verso aprile.
Le barbate nane presentano uno sviluppo molto contenuto, tra i 35 e 70 cm di altezza. La fioritura delle barbate nane si sviluppa entro marzo.
Le barbate nane, così come le altre iris barbate, vanno messe a dimora da giugno fino al termine dell’estate. Nello stesso periodo è possibile procedere con la moltiplicazione con divisione del rizoma
In EXPLORE N° 58
I just brought this pot-bound old Iris up to the side of the porch. It was abandoned out back in the "nursery" area of unplanted plants, etc. All of a sudden, oh my, 4 or 5 blossoms every day and they are not just one-timers. They bloom over and over each day. Trying to take a little better care of it. What a beauty! Blessed that I didn't kill it through these awful 3+ years.
PS: I looked and looked for further description of species. I think it might be Alophia drummondii.
... photo taken near where I live in Nottingham.
Camera: Canon 5D Mk2 with my 24-105mm Canon lens
Software used:
- Lightroom 5
- Topaz Studio - pre-sets: Paint by numbers & then Expressionism, both used partially.
- Photoshop Elements for everything else.
I was thinking about Paul Gauguin's use of colour and Georgia O'Keeffe's exotic flowers while I was editing my photo.
If you would like to see more of my photo-art, please have a look at my album ... flic.kr/s/aHskHKuNDr
The iris flower is an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects. The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic surfaces on the outer petals form a landing-stage for a flying insect, which in probing for nectar, will first come into contact with the perianth, then with the three stigmatic stamens in one whorled surface which is borne on an ovary formed of three carpels. Thus, an insect bearing pollen from one flower will, in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma; in backing out of a flower, the pollen which it bears will not be rubbed off on the stigma of the same flower.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(plant)
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens. Florida.
www.gardendestinations.com/exploring-kanapaha-botanical-g...