The short lived Iris

I remember many, many years ago this plant was just a tiny bush with a few of the flowers blooming in late spring.
With time they they grew to a really nice bunch! It has been split in the meantime to plant in another part of the garden and it is still pretty big.

Out of all the Irises - this is my absolute favorited. It has smaller flowers and doesn't grow as tall, but the colour! I don't know many flowers (African Violets maybe) that have this intensive navy blue shade.





The flowers so not last very long so obviously I had to take some photos. I use my brothers Helios 40-2 since I didn't have my camera with me.
The colours from this lens and the bokeh amazes me every time. Old, manual lens with such amazing sharpness. After you get the hang of it is a pleasure to use.

So yea.. I probably overdid it with photos a tiny bit (besides the ones here there was plenty of blurry ones not even artistic, just shit that ended up in a bin already), but it just doesn't happen every day.

Soon the flowers will fade and will be replaces by other flowers growing around (poppies, roses, sunflowers...)

Below you can see another iris in the far back. It is one of those with very bog flowers. The flower stem keeps growing new buds at the top and even though the blooms will fade withing two or three days, another one pops at the top. This one has this very warm, brown colour. Very pretty!

Yep, definitely my fav.
I took a section with me to Portugal once, but it didn't want to grow. I'd love to have a bunch like this in a pot...