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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:19 pm  (#51) 
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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:41 am  (#53) 
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I mentioned in a previous post last year that I would post some pics of my new aquisitions of my hybrid show Irises and this year they were very prolific. Starting about the last week in March (way early because of a mild Winter) I started going out every day to see which ones were blooming. Some were breathtaking and I took photos almost every day. I still have a few stragglers blooming but for the most part the season has ended. Although I lost some of the name tags in the process, I will eventually identify all of them. This collection represents about $300 to $400 on the open market just for a 2" to 3" piece of the root! Here is the 2012 Review.

The 2nd pic is my 2013 wish list whenever I get rich and famous and can afford them.

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Wow - you've got quite a collection! They're gorgeous.


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Thanks. We have really enjoyed watching them bloom. I was getting up every morning all excited. I pour myself some coffee and go out to see what was new.

I had to move all my old ones to the new bed because of the growth of a couple of trees over the last few years. There was less and less sun on them and they started to get stunted. Only a few of them would bloom. Can't wait until next year when they all bloom!

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WOW! those are rockin'!

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:37 pm  (#57) 
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My pleasure. Glad you liked them.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:47 pm  (#58) 
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These are all beautiful to say the least Drac. You apparently have the thumb of green. :)

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:58 pm  (#59) 
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Paynekj,
I especially loved the first of the two photos you posted.

And Draconian,
What a fantastic collection, with great photos of them as well. Must be a lot of work, but I'm sure very enjoyable and well worth it.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:19 pm  (#60) 
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I love bearded Iris! We have some that are somewhat similar to the one labeled unknown, plus some blue purple ones. Ours are donations from friends, and we have had to pass some on to others...they keep filling up the beds and then when they are so crowded they don't have as nice a blooming season.


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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:27 am  (#63) 
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Loving all these beautiful photos. I think all my flower pics are on the old computer, and they are old anyway. I haven't been doing much with photography in several years. I really should get back into it.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:06 am  (#64) 
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Cecilia - That bottom pic looks almost like a Peony but it appears to be some sort of tree I'm unfamiliar with. What is that?

Charlie - not really a lot of work at all. Irises are a desert plant and don't require any care at all except thinning out ocaissionally and they don't require a lot of water at all, except when it gets really hot like it does here in big D. You can leave them lying around on on a bench for weeks, then plant it and it will thrive. The moisture is stored in the roots. I've inadvertantly left one laying on top of the ground and the stupid thing started growing anyway. The work was digging up and killing all the grass, preparing the bed by mixing sand with the soil, and getting them into a shallow hole in the ground. Now it's pretty much pulling a weed or two onece in a while and just watching them grow.

2-Ton - Irises like room to grow and spread their roots. If you don't keep them thinned out it's the same as a houseplant that has become root bound and needs a larger pot. Give 'em away to friends.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:49 pm  (#65) 
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I like effects so...

I changed this pretty flower picture from paynekj
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And I changed this pretty flower picture from Draconian


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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:04 pm  (#66) 
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The water reflection effect works very well with flower photos.


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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:05 am  (#67) 
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Wow! Great job Bar. Nature provided the perfect medium for those flower effects. :kpix

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:58 am  (#68) 
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Bar, Nice reflection effect, how did you do that?

OK, a picture from my garden at the cottage.


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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:01 pm  (#69) 
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Cecilia - That bottom pic looks almost like a Peony but it appears to be some sort of tree I'm unfamiliar with. What is that?
cherry blossom tree. We have a lot of them in NY. And obviously in DC.
this is the line of those trees:

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I just LOVE spring.

this is my mother's Colonnade Apple tree. It makes green apples.

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:27 pm  (#70) 
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Odin, there is a script for the water reflection effect...I can't remember the name of it offhand.


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