Floral musings
May. 29th, 2002 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magid(likely insipidy (is that a word?) ahead...)
Irises are blooming everywhere, and they're beautiful. I most like the purple ones (for a variety of purples), also the white ones are ok, but the yellow ones seem wrong to me. I was at an iris show years ago in Shelburne Falls, and the sheer number of varieties amazed me. Not only colors and size, but shape as well. Though they were all easily identifiable as irises (such a graceful shape), some were ruffled, some not, some had different sorts of arches of petals... I wish I had a better command of the language, to describe their beauty more fully.
And the lilies of the valley are out. Whenever I see them, I think of my mom. They're her favorite flower; she wanted them for her wedding bouquet. However, x decades ago (x > 3), this was not a trivial thing for a December wedding... the florist handed her plastic ones :-(. She's managed to grow lilies wherever she lives; they're relatively easy plants, doing fine in the shade. And the line of white bells on a green stalk is pretty, too, in a totally different way than the showy iris. (so glad I'm not in charge of designing flowers; I'd not be nearly so creative...)
And I'm lucky enough to have a yellow rose to look at when I go home, too. :-)
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Irises are blooming everywhere, and they're beautiful. I most like the purple ones (for a variety of purples), also the white ones are ok, but the yellow ones seem wrong to me. I was at an iris show years ago in Shelburne Falls, and the sheer number of varieties amazed me. Not only colors and size, but shape as well. Though they were all easily identifiable as irises (such a graceful shape), some were ruffled, some not, some had different sorts of arches of petals... I wish I had a better command of the language, to describe their beauty more fully.
And the lilies of the valley are out. Whenever I see them, I think of my mom. They're her favorite flower; she wanted them for her wedding bouquet. However, x decades ago (x > 3), this was not a trivial thing for a December wedding... the florist handed her plastic ones :-(. She's managed to grow lilies wherever she lives; they're relatively easy plants, doing fine in the shade. And the line of white bells on a green stalk is pretty, too, in a totally different way than the showy iris. (so glad I'm not in charge of designing flowers; I'd not be nearly so creative...)
And I'm lucky enough to have a yellow rose to look at when I go home, too. :-)
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