Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 350
—the eiFect is none the lesscharming, and later in the year these little roofgardens are sometimes gay with HemerocaUisaurantiaca or a stray tuft of scarlet Nerine. The true Iris japonica or c/iinensis is a shade-loving plant, with many lavender-coloured flowerson a branching stem, each outer petal… … THE IRIS 179 sunrise to the next, but the stems bear so manyblooms that other buds quickly open and fill thegap of yesterdays blossom. Iris gracilipes seems the commonest and mostfree - flowering of all the irises. In May itsgraceful purple flowers and vivid green grass-likefoliage seemed to frihge…
Flowers · Gardens · Plants
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