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
