We’ve finally got a bright & sunny
day. It’s even fairly warm despite the chilly edge to the breeze.
This last couple of weeks I’ve waited
with bated breath to see what looked like a potentially magnificent iris or two
open out in the garden.
The tall dark purply red buds appeared.
Finally one opened. It’s a bearded iris with a winey coloured edge to it,
though very furrily yellow in the centre. It had barely opened. I went to fetch
the Fox to see this miracle when the weather changed to wind & rain &
the petals were damaged. A few days later another opened & the same
happened again. I’m now hoping the weather settles so I can appreciate the
remaining bud opening into their full glory.
It is so disappointing after our visit to
the Iris Garden in the Jardin des Plantes (botanical gardens) in Paris on our
holidays. So many plants seemed in advance of ours – the warmer climate I
suppose. There we loved the flowers & came home with such hopes for ours.
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| In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris |
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| In all their frilly frothy glory |
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| More akin tot he colouring of our irises |
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| In the Jardins des Plantes Paris |
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