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Just one of my Irises. This one is supposed to bloom again later in the summer. So far it hasn't done that, so may be false advertising. Oh well, it is beautiful in the spring.
The Iris are at the end of the season at Tucson Botanical Garden. It's ashamed the season is so short for these lovely flowers.
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Out of all of the irises next to the house, there are only two flower stalks. I was given these last spring and quickly transplanted them where they took and seemed to be fine. There is just a lack of flowers. My aunt said she got some irises from my other aunt and planted them ten years ago. They are healthy but have never bloomed once.
5/26/07 - Update. I think I may know. I noticed a couple of days ago that a cat had "marked" the plants. Also, the rain from the eaves falls directly on the irises and creates quite a pool. I'll have to move them this fall to a new location. Perhaps on the fence.
The Glen Iris Inn, William Pryor Letchworth's former home, is located on the top of a cliff overlooking Middle Falls in Letchworth State Park.
Letchworth hired noted landscape architect William Webster to design the grounds of the estate, which Letchworth named Glen Iris after the Greek goddess of rainbows.
You can see this was an appropriate name for Letchworth's estate from the shots just prior to this one in the photostream.
I was given a tip on where to see some blooming Iris flowers today in East End Park. Sure enough, right on the banks of the San Jacinto river was a small colony of these amazing flowers!
Meininger
2004
Tall Bearded Iris
Photographed at White Rock Gardens, Benton, Arkansas, a private iris and daylily display garden
All important rain that makes life and my garden possible, and the lack of rain which makes the desert such a wonderful place to live. My favorite smell is desert rain, if it happened often it would smell like mold! This is rain on the iris back in March and my favorite quote by Rumi though all I find of his writing is very inspirational.
I had fun playing with the different font options this week
Belgium. Meise.
National Botanic Garden
Iris graminea is a beardless dwarf spuria iris that grows from a rhizome to 8-18” tall. It is native from Spain to Russia and throughout the Caucasus. In the wild, it comes in a variety of different forms depending on geographic location. Plants from central Europe generally have grass like leaves with flower spikes that are somewhat hidden by the foliage. Each flower spike bears two flowers (to 3” long) which have purple standards, purple style branches and violet falls with violet-veined, yellowish-white hafts. Flowers have a fruity aroma somewhat reminiscent of ripe plums, hence the sometimes used common names for this plant of plum iris or plum-scented iris. Flowers bloom in June. Grassy foliage clump may elongate after bloom. Graminea means grass in obvious reference to the grass-like clump of leaves.
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A really lovely purple Iris is now the only thing standing in our front garden now that our landlord hacked all the beautiful weeds down!
We had never seen irises like these before.
The Butchart Gardens began when the Butchart family moved to Vancouver Island to open a limestone quarry and cement plant. Jennie Butchart was an avid gardener, and when the quarry was exhausted, she worked to create her vision of a grand garden.
We took a day tour from Vancouver to Victoria which, of course, included a ferry ride. Our tour guide was wonderful, and the tour itself included stops in downtown Vancouver and the Butchart Gardens.