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So yesterday I bought hellebores (niger) during my lunch break. Well, today I spent another 30 kroner (around 5 US$) on two pots of dwarf iris.
I suspect it might be Iris danfordiae, as it seems more or less the only species of iris that matches my purchase. The label had bright yellow flowers like the ones in the picture, and it’s clearly a spring-blooming iris.
However, as this is a supermarket puchase, the labelling is limited to “iris”, which is a bit like labelling a cucumber only as “vegetable” I guess. Also, as this is a supermarket purchase I’m not necessarily convinced that it will be a success, but at that price I couldn’t help myself.
Yes, I love flowers, but I love cheap flowers even more. And these days, with the frost recently returned to Copenhagen for at least another week (and looking set to stay for a fortnight), I desperately crave spring, which might also explain why I have such trouble with restraint.
However, apart from these trifles I’m also sending my husband links to sites that sell bare-root plants of a more significant size. Roses, a pear tree, that sort of scale. Dreaming is wonderful… And right now, a few of those dreams are standing in my kitchen, waiting to be transported up to the summer house and the garden on Friday when I go up for the weekend.
I promise that by then I will post pictures of the real plants in the settings they end up with, even if the settings will be temporary, at least for the hellebores.
>Such a lovely burst of cheer, how could you possibly resist! Will look forward to pics of plants in situ, but I think in the meant time you could claim to have rescued these iris from the horrors of supermarket living 😉
>I shall do my best to provide them with a good life…
>But $25 = DKK30?
>Soren, plant your Iris out when you get the chance, it might be fine and come back next spring!Having seen several dwarf Iris at a recent garden show, I'm enamoured by them! I might even get into collecting them!
>Amateur: Typo… Should be "around 5 US$"!Mark & Gaz: They will go outside on Saturday, and while I hope – and believe – they will flower this year, they're perfectly excused if they want to take a year to get used to their new home before emerging again next winter.And I have a thing for iris in general; this will be the fifth species of iris in the garden… Siberian iris, wild yellow iris (iris pseudacorus?), large blue iris (iris germanica?), Dutch iris and now the yellow dwarf iris of this entry (iris danfordiae?)…
>Hi Soren, your plant I also would think is Iris Reticulata Danfordiae. As much as we like a bargain dont we all just buy on impulse at times. Good therapy.
>Alistair, while the two pots of iris has been stood in my kitchen, waiting to be taken to the summer house and garden tomorrow after work, one of them has decided to sport a single flower. BLUE! Oh, it is so delicate and beautiful and just the sight of that flower seems to be worth the price I paid for the two pots.
>Beautiful. Dwarf Iris, somewhat like the reticulata I was staring at earlier this afternoon.