Monday is the time to join with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden where she asks us to find something in our gardens to bring indoors to enjoy.
This week the first of the Irises that were grown in the greenhouse.
In a vase on Monday
Dutch Iris Sapphire Beauty
I’m not as pleased with the colour of this Iris as I am with those I’ve purchased before. The colour seems washed out.
Do visit Cathy to see what everyone else who joins this popular meme has found to put in their vases.
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
I do love irises and you photos ar lovely, but I see what you mean about a washed out look. Though the twist on the buds is delightful.
They may be washed out because I actually picked them last week and they were in a darkened room for most of the week.
The colour tones perfectly with the background wood though. Against a lighter background they would probably look a bit pale. However I just love all irises, well apart from those really big blowsy ones perhaps.
I love all Irises too; I love the bearded ones too, although I didn’t used to like them that much, but here they grow so well even in the hot sun and without irrigation that I love them as much as all the others.
They are beautiful, Christina, and what a joy to be able to pick them from the greenhouse 🙂
Even those in the garden won’t be far behind.
Your greenhouse is a source of great pleasure. Irises! They’re grand Christina! Actually I like the soft color.
The greenhouse is full to bursting already. Some plants will have to go out soon but the air is still quite cold.
They look perfect and beautiful to me, the unfurling buds are a delight. It’s interesting that keeping them on the dark might have resulted in paler colours in the flowers too.
I was away almost the whole week as my husband is in hospital for knee replacement surgery. So they were on complete dark for 6 days.
Oh, I see. I do hope the op went well, Christina, and that your husband makes a speedy recovery.
Thanks Kate, he is on a feat hospital where they do three weeks of physiotherapy as well as the op itself, he is already walking better than before.
That’s great – sounds like an excellent care plan.
Not sure what happened to the predictive text in my last reply!
It’s a mixed blessing isn’t it’
It doesn’t help that I keep changing the language from English to Italian and don’t always check its on the right one.
You know how much I love irises and you have displayed them so effectively. Magnificence in simplicity.
Irises are another flower that I often prefer on their own in a vase, glad you enjoyed them John.
Very nice and I like the elegant arrangement. Best wishes to your husband for a speedy recovery.
Thank you.
Questi iris – da bulbo credo – erano molto in uso nei vecchi giardini e nelle campagne della nostra zona. Quindi un appuntamento annuale ed un tuffo nel passato per me!
Sono contenta Lidia. Ho sempre avuto in giardino, non l’hai visto alte anni?
I do love Dutch Iris and would be happy to have a plentiful supply in bloom as you do. I haven’t had much luck growing them in this garden, although I do have a couple of blooms this spring. Mine grow to an ungainly height that looks out of keeping with the rest of the garden. Perhaps I’ll try growing them in a pot next year.
Mine grow better on the ground than they do in pots Kris, but for you pots may work better to keep them out of the wind. Mine don’t have any summer irrigation.
These must be a taller variety than the little spring iris – must look them up in the PN catalogue – definitely good on their own in the vase. Thanks for sharing and hope the patient continues to improve.
Thanks Cathy. These are listed as Dutch Iris they return every year in my soil so are good value.
I am very much a novice with irises, as there are so many different types with different flowering seasons
Yes there’s almost an Iris for every month of the year.
Definitely need to look into it! I have some freebie reticulata (JS Dijt) just coming into flower – perhaps they will make it into next week’s vase….
That was the first reticulata I ever grew. Enjoy!
I like the color, sort of a pale blue with a little golden yellow tongue.
We’ll see how the other colours compare.
I’d be interested in finding out how long lasting they are in water Christina. The iris reticulata I picked for my vase last week more or less flopped overnight. I hope that your husband makes a speedy recovery and that the operation improves his mobility.
Thank you for your good wishes. I think he is already walking better, obviously it is a big operation and the physio will be painful but I’m so pleased with his progress so far. The irises were actually picked last Sunday 6th and we’re still ok on Saturday but he house was cool because I wasn’t there for most of the week. I usually leave the I. Reticulata in the garden, but really they don’t last that long even there!
I do love irises although Dutch iris are short lived in my garden so I do not grow them. But seeing them was wonderful! I am glad to read your husband is doing well Christina.
Irises in a vase – what can be more elegant?
I love your iris Christina – I have only ever grown the tiny iris reticulata in the greenhouse so they are another idea for next year.
How clever to have grown your own iris. The gentle colour is lovely. Wishing the patient a speedy recovery.
I’ve always grown this Iris in the garden, they grow well here and return each year so I add a few more to have a better and better show each year.
Even if the purple is paler, I like the way purple and orange complement each other so well, Christina.
I really like this paler version Christina. They are in any case lovely for a vase in March. Was this the first year you have grown them in the greenhouse?
They look lovely. They are stalwarts for me as well, and I have one similar to that one. Compared with some of the others, it’s quite pastel. They are all welcome and pretty though.
I love all types of Iris and these make a welcome display. Often those planted in the garden flower when a lot of other things are flowering too so they are something I’m always happy to pick for a vase.
I think they are gorgeous Christina. You always grow such lovely blooms for your vases.
I’ve always liked Dutch Irises and the grow very successfully here, some are about to open in the garden so it doesn’t seem to be worth forcing them.
How interesting, I was struck by how much I enjoyed the subtle colours of your irises!
The rest of the pot which flowered in the greenhouse are a stronger colour so I think it was the lack of light.