Tuesday, May 15, 2018

A floral mystery

This morning I noticed a new color blooming in the iris bed, so I went over to take a photo. Instead of the yellow bloom I was expecting, I was shocked to see this:

Why shocked? That is a strange new iris we've never had in this bed. And things got stranger yet. There were actually three similar iris, with progressively more abnormal petals:


At first I thought it might be a genetic sport, but there wouldn't be three different plants. So they must be seedlings resulting from wild cross pollination between our rust iris and something else. Why now, after all these years? Who knows!

Keeping life interesting at . . .

4 comments:

Mama Pea said...

You've got somethin' new goin' on there!

Retired Knitter said...

Beautiful for sure. I often feel that cross pollination in all things (including people) creates some of natures most beautiful things.

Mary Ann said...

They are actually quite beautiful!

Susan said...

Whatever the cause, they are beautiful!