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My iris in the wind. by *winklepickers:iconwinklepickers:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Flowers & Plants

©2008 *winklepickers
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Submitted: May 11
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Make: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model: KODAK EASYSHARE C300 DIGITAL CAMERA
Shutter Speed: 1/760 second
F Number: F/4.5
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jun 4, 2008, 10:50:15 AM

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These blue iris are the most common type here.
They just started flowering yesterday.
Plants are always late here.

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*eunecte:iconeunecte: 3 days 19 hours ago
Oh, there's worse!... They haven't started blooming yet in our garden, 65 km north of Paris - and yes, as well as being the most common kind of irises (with the brown-rust ones), they also are the earliest to flower. Not one yet, it would seem, in our garden. The Rhododendrons and azaleas are magnificient, but not even one iris yet! ;)
Yours are beautiful.Do you have any other kinds? :rose:

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*winklepickers:iconwinklepickers: 3 days 17 hours ago
One brown and rust, that rarely flowers.
I had a tall deep yellow but it stopped flowering.
I don't displace and refresh the roots. They are much too hard to dig up now.
My husband would give himself immediate lumbago!

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*eunecte:iconeunecte: 3 days 14 hours ago
Maybe soak the dirt enough, some time in advance, for the pitchfork, or whatever tool you use, to penetrate the ground without effort and dig the roots up. Iris rhizomes, anyway, are rarely far from the surface - should even be in part overground....
Well, it's not a task for May, anyway... rather September....
Yes, the blues are the hardiest, and need little care if any.... but there are such incredible varieties of colours in irises, that depriving oneself is really a pity... ;)

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*winklepickers:iconwinklepickers: 3 days 6 hours ago
Yes I know about the rhizomes. Ours are so knitted together you can't see the earth underneath!
Well, these pale blue ones, found on a rubbish dump in some woods, are very hardy.

When I bit younger and when there was room in the garden, I did collect a few colours. They disappeared and I don't garden much.

Lazybones!

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*eunecte:iconeunecte: 3 days 2 hours ago
Lazybones... or not interested enough. Otherwise, I know you can be one heck of a perseverant lady, Shoshana.
Some colours, like black or white, are VERY difficult to get to bloom. They'll give you beautiful leaves, be perfectly healthy, and refuse you even the smallest flower. VERY frustrating! ;) :rose:

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*winklepickers:iconwinklepickers: 3 days 2 hours ago
I've never seen black, but white, I think so. :)

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*eunecte:iconeunecte: 2 days 22 hours ago
Black irises are a very diffident lot. I have never been able to get mine to bloom... they do thrive, though... :shrug:

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