On 5/18/2014 9:51 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
Over 40 years ago, my wife transplanted some flowers from her childhood home to our new home. Each Spring, some still
favor us with blooms.
Although probably not quite as old, we have some bearded irises that were long established when I bought this house 33
years ago. Ours look somewhat like yours 'inside', somewhat darker/purpler, but the backs of the petals are the same
color as the fronts, not a much lighter shade. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=12938>
They always put up lots of leaves, but the number of flower stalks has varied over the years. It seems to depend a lot
on the amount of sun they get. This year, they went nuts, with lots of stalks and lots of time spaced flowers per stalk.
Probably the result of trimming nearby things so they got more light.
They were also quite early, overlapping with the small irises, but almost everything in the garden has been different
this year, I assume from weather.
Something that has fascinated me is the appearance of white flowers where there were originally only colored ones. Some
years ago, some glads in a bunch of yellow ones with red centers started coming up white.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Glads/pages/01-1080_.htm>
More recently, some irises, both small and bearded, have come out white. Especially in the bearded case, they are
clearly coming out of the same extensive network of roots/rhizomes/whatever in that area.
Bud. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=12929>
Open. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=12926>
I know hybrids don't breed true, but it seems like these are the same
bulbs/roots losing their hybrid qualities?
This bearded Iris was captured with the vintage lens made for capturing
flowers, the 1980 Leica Elmarit-R 60mm Macro.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Vintage+Iris.jpg.html
Mine are the opposite, a very recent lens. All with Panny GM1 and the excellent 12-32 kit lens. All but the overall
purple one with 10 mm extension tube. There are a few other shots from that series in the little gallery.
Fuji X-E1 with Elmarit-R 60mm
Flower Fun Moose
--
What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|
