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**Katel** @Kateldepenarbed@mastodon.social · 1h

Katel @Kateldepenarbed@mastodon.social

Iris jaune offerte par une amie

#photo #nature #fleur

**Mike In The Spring Garden** @MikeInTheGarden@toot.wales · 23h

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Mike In The Spring Garden @MikeInTheGarden@toot.wales

Our first Siberian #Iris is in flower.
You could just dive into the depths of that colour.

Iris sibirica Caesar's Brother. I have noticed a great amount of confusion amongst the trade when it comes to Siberian iris cultivars. This looks like the real thing, but then again, it could be another cultivar altogether.

Petals are a deep and saturated violet purple with golden haft markings and pure white pollen guides resembling eye lashes.

Pretty though.

**C_B** @lensandpedals@ohai.social · 1d

C_B @lensandpedals@ohai.social

Iris #2

A close up of a purple bearded iris with tiny yellow tipped stamens.

#Bloomscrolling #Photography #Iris

**venande** @venande@bonn.social · 1d

venande @venande@bonn.social

Iris blüht in meinem Garten und im Garten dort blühende Pflanzen zu aquarellieren ist schön und atmosphärisch. #iris #garten #aquarell #malerei

Aquarell von zwei Pflanzenstielen blühender Iris, vor einem Hintergrund aus anderen Pflanzen und Mauerwerk.

**hennige** @hennige@mastodon.online · 1d

hennige @hennige@mastodon.online

Iris: Late afternoon and next morning
#Flowers #Iris #Garden #Photography #Blumen #Garten

**ThreeDollarBill** @3DBill@mstdn.ca · 1d

ThreeDollarBill @3DBill@mstdn.ca

#Iris Tall Bearded Benton 'Deirdre' (Sir Cedric Morris, R. 1946)
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Closeup on the throat area. Older style iris with longer form and less ruffling, one of the Benton irises recently rescued from extinction. A plicata, flags translucent dotted, lined, and washed with a deep magenta. Falls creamy yellow with a border of dots and lines of the magenta. The throat and beard are luminous golden yellow.

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**Takako** @otterX@mindly.social · 1d

Takako @otterX@mindly.social

Spot the little rat!

See, the iris has been clearcut around the pedestal birdbath (in the 1st pic)

Snapshot of my flowerbed taken on July 19, 2018. There’s a pedestal birdbath in the back near the wooden fence. The iris used to surround it. Other green plants are blooming, lavender, echinacea, etc. It’s in the tree-shade. A small brown rat is looking out behind the rock a little left to the birdbath.

The blooming purple iris around the pedestal birdbath, taken on May 24, 2018. Backdrop is the wooden fence.

#WildRaturday #iris

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**Takako** @otterX@mindly.social · 1d

Takako @otterX@mindly.social

Once, a mischief of rats in my flowerbed used the Iris leaves for bedding (? I assumed), I almost lost the plant, but it came back.
Another time, I saw a cottontail eating a leaf from the iris that grew on the other side of the fence in the alleyway.

A cottontail has an Iris leaf hanging from her mouth. She’s facing away with her white cotton ball like tail in the air and looks back at us.

#whatCottontailsEat #iris

**Takako** @otterX@mindly.social · 1d

Takako @otterX@mindly.social

Yesterday, I brought in two broken iris buds that are now flowering.
The ones in my flowerbed aren’t blooming yet. It’s chilly today.

Two purple iris flowers and a bud in the small vase with Maine blueberry design in the front. Plain light gray background.

#BloomScrolling #iris

**Rüdiger Benninghaus** @1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social · 1d

Rüdiger Benninghaus @1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social

Not a ‘wallflower’ (plain Jane), but an iris to be proud of.
(May 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Blumen, #flowers, #Schwertlilien, #iris, #Blüten, #blossoms

#blossoms

**Vanalope** @Vanalope@timeloop.cafe · 1d

Vanalope @Vanalope@timeloop.cafe

Cool, the first iris blossom of the season has opened!

When we moved in to this house in 2022 we knew we wanted to replace all landscape plantings around the house with all edible /herbal tea plantings so Paul chainsawed out all the larger shrubs and I slowly pulled out all the smaller stuff.

These irises were hidden by all that overgrowth and popped up the next year. I decided to let them be and see what bloomed from them. Last year they bloomed and I couldn't find a match to them anywhere online. I posted a pic on Mastodon and someone suggested I try reaching out to the Historical Iris Preservation Society as it seemed like an older heritage variety.

After some back and forth with them they thought it was a variety probably from the 60s or 70s best guess was maybe a variety called Memphis Belle. Only way to be able to tell was grow a known Memphis Belle near them and see if they matched. So I obtained a Memphis Belle rhizome from a Society member last year and planted it. That one won't bloom til next year. So for now, it's still what iris folks call a Noid....No ID. If it is a Memphis Belle, then yes, it's a fairly rare variety.

I do like it, dug it up last year and divided. There's now multiple sections of this elegant gal growing in different areas of the property.