It was a bit warmer yesterday, back to brisk today, but enough to give a few more of these terribly cute Iris (I. reticulata) a chance to flower. Their flower is pretty large in comparison to the size of the plants, although the leaves will get longer and taller. This is a species that would like being in a sunny rock garden, which TPP does not have, but in one bed this bulb-forming Iris has been happy. This is a very cheerful spring flower if you can make it happy. In 3 or 4 other places in our gardens it has just faded away. This species has been a FFF before, but not too many other choices right now, and if enjoyable each spring, then no problem featuring it again.
This flower is so pretty, you can post it any time!
ReplyDeleteI do love plant names and I was wondering why it would be called reticulata (meaning netted), because I do not see any netted pattern, so I checked on missouribotanicalgarden.org and they say that there is a reticulate pattern on the dry bulbs.
Iris, of course ,is the Greek goddess of the rainbow!