Heirloom Bearded Iris
April 20, 2008
I hesitate to call this iris heirloom, or suggest its name, but that is the closest I have come so far to figuring out who might be this beautiful iris.When we first bought our house, the front and backyard surprised us in each season with all kinds of bulbs--old jonquils, rain lilies, oxblood lilies, oxalis and a lone Dutch iris oddly placed in the very abandoned part of the back yard.The more I paid attention to other old neighborhoods in Austin, I noticed all these same flowers in other yards, helping me to understand that they were not only loved...…
