The name Iris comes from the greek word meaning "rainbow", and it seems to fit perfectly seeing how many different colors are available. There are approxiamately 200 species, some grow from bulbs and some from rhizomes. This particular type is Tall Bearded Iris, and does grow from a rhizome. I dug up, split and replanted rhizomes last fall and got beautiful flowers this summer, this being one of them. The big photo is my absolute favorite, out of any photo I have ever taken, I love to capture the close-ups of the inside of flowers and think they tend to get overlooked to frequently. Take a close look deep inside a flower next time you see one and see what you find, watch out though, you might run into a bug of some sort having it's lunch. I have a few photos of insects which I will post at a later time, I find them amazing as well. Till next time...
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