Beautiful irises and their funny names

As I promised in yesterday’s post today will be all about irises and their names. Funny names.

IRIS from Greek means “rainbow“. Iris was a messenger-goddess who rode rainbows between heaven and earth to deliver messages from Olympus 🙂 Interesting.

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As I said yesterday, I’m not a big fan of those flowers. Maybe because they bloom only once a year and for not very long, but visiting Nola’s Iris Garden I found for myslef one veriety that I fell in love with:

Some of them if you know what they mean could be used as a letter/message to somebody. Like those three belowe.

It’s actually a pretty neat idea, I think!

Some of the sound like a movie or a song title 🙂


That would be it for today. Tomorrow more of the Nola’s Iris Garden, a few horses and a cow 🙂

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12 responses to “Beautiful irises and their funny names”

  1. SUCH pretty photos!! Love the processing – really nice tones.

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  2. These are so pretty. I just got my irises to bloom for the first time this year. I was so excited!

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  3. Thanks for stopping by. It’s nice to meet you. Your Iris photos are gorgeous!

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  4. Beautiful flowers – love your processing. I might actually dive into some old shots and reprocess now.

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  5. Beautiful! That first photo looks like they are growing like wildflowers. Coincidentally I have a post for tomorrow on irises where I explain why so many people think they change color over the years.

    Happy WW!

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    1. sounds interesting. I’m gonna read your post tomorrow, then! 🙂

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  6. beautiful pictures. i never get tired of photographing flowers, never!

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  7. How pretty! I like irises but I love all bulb flowers. I do have to agree, however, they bloom for far too short a time and only once a year 😦 The names are cute.

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  8. so many beautiful flowers and I love the names

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  9. These are beautiful… and I love their fancy names!

    Thank you for linking up with Communal Global! =)

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  10. wow – I’ve never seen soo many irises in one spot!! beautiful shots!

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  11. […] For me that place is magical. I wrote about it last year when we visited it for the first time. […]

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