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Jardin des Iris du Jardin des Plantes de Paris / Garden of the irises at the "Jardin des Plantes de Paris"
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This is one of the crested iris varieties - Iris cristata lacustris. It is in my garden in Etowah County, Alabama. (DSC08406)
For years I admired Iris but never had any of my own. I don't know why except that they seemed expensive and I couldn't grow them from seeds. These are getting established and they had a good spring this year.
May 23, 2009.
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Angmering, West Sussex.
Iris unguicularis (also commonly known as the Algerian iris) is a rhizomatous flowering plant native to Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia.
It grows to 30 centimetres (12 in), with grassy evergreen leaves, producing pale lilac or purple flowers with a central band of yellow on the falls. The flowers appear in winter and early spring. They are fragrant, with pronounced perianth tubes.
It is widely cultivated in temperate regions, and numerous cultivars have been selected for garden use, including a slightly more tender white form 'Alba', and a dwarf variety I. unguicularis subsp. cretensis. The cultivar 'Mary Barnard' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
This began as a photo of a soft purple and yellow iris blooming in the spring garden and was transformed digitally into a painterly type floral piece with a classic romantic feel.