Comments on: Purple Irises in the Mountains http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-26/471 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:46:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Anita http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-26/471#comment-13216 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:15:10 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-26/471#comment-13216 Hi I am an editor of a regional Iris newsletter and I would like to, with your permission use some of your photos to teach others of Iris species. Thanks for sharing these wonderful photographs Anita Hi I am an editor of a regional Iris newsletter and I would like to, with your permission use some of your photos to teach others of Iris species.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful photographs
Anita

]]> by: Peter http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-26/471#comment-4817 Tue, 29 May 2007 08:30:54 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-26/471#comment-4817 What gorgeous photographs! I think the iris is kakitsubata - Iris laevigata. It is wild in Japan, but also much cultivated. "In the 8th century, travellers who saw I. laevigata as they journeyed were reminded of their lovers, and when they composed a Japanese traditional poem (tanka), they compared this flower to the beautiful women they longed for." - according to 'The Pictorial Book of Iris Laevigata, by Akira Horinaka (Abocsha, 1990). Peter What gorgeous photographs!
I think the iris is kakitsubata - Iris laevigata. It is wild in Japan, but also much cultivated. “In the 8th century, travellers who saw I. laevigata as they journeyed were reminded of their lovers, and when they composed a Japanese traditional poem (tanka), they compared this flower to the beautiful women they longed for.” - according to ‘The Pictorial Book of Iris Laevigata, by Akira Horinaka (Abocsha, 1990).

Peter

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