Earlier this week Wild Daffodil posted about some brown and purple iris in her garden and said they were ugly and looked like witchy flowers – even posing some in a cauldron. I said I had some a little like those and some fully brown ones and she said yuk – or something similar – so I said I’d show her a photo (or two).
So, in defence of oddly coloured Iris varieties, I present
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💜💛💜
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If I ever change my mind though, I have the cauldron ready.
Tialys 
#1 by kathyreeves on May 21, 2019 - 14:26
Bronze beauties they are! I bought one called Huckleberry Fudge, but it hasn’t bloomed….too close to the mower I think!
#2 by tialys on May 22, 2019 - 08:58
What a great name – you’ll have to be a bit more careful with the mower in future.
#3 by kathyreeves on May 23, 2019 - 02:34
I planted it to far out in the border between us and the neighbor, and he mowed,mImthink!
#4 by katechiconi on May 21, 2019 - 14:32
I have to say, I absolutely love that first amber-coloured one, it looks as if it’s made from taffeta and velvet 🙂
#5 by tialys on May 22, 2019 - 08:59
They do don’t they? I love the colours against the emerald green of the
weedsfoliage behind.#6 by katechiconi on May 22, 2019 - 09:26
You could have missed out ‘weeds’ and we’d have been none the wiser… They’re really lavishly beautiful and have nothing at all to do with the word ‘brown’.
#7 by Laurie Graves on May 21, 2019 - 14:38
Too funny! And, I can’t help myself. I like those oddballs.
#8 by tialys on May 22, 2019 - 09:04
Me too.
#9 by Lynda on May 21, 2019 - 16:02
I love beards on flowers and chickens. I admire them on men too, but they must be well kept! Your bronzed iris would be my favorite. Its coloring is robust.
#10 by Wild Daffodil on May 21, 2019 - 21:25
HaHa! 🙂 Funny! Hurray for well kept beards of all varieties!
#11 by nanacathy2 on May 21, 2019 - 16:49
Aren’t they just lovely. I am getting very worried by some of my favourite bloggers, you all seem to have cauldrons.
#12 by katechiconi on May 21, 2019 - 16:54
I must not be a favourite then, I only have a 46-pint pressure cooker for bottling stuff. Or does that count? I’d be sad to think I was missing a trick in the witching stakes!
#13 by Wild Daffodil on May 21, 2019 - 21:28
Now a 46 pint pressure cooker …. hmmm … I’m sure there can be a whole lot of spells cooked up with that! It must surely qualify as an honorary cauldron
#14 by katechiconi on May 21, 2019 - 23:38
That’s what I thought… And speedy, too, for the busy modern witch.
#15 by Wild Daffodil on May 22, 2019 - 00:12
And the busy modern witch needs all the help she can get 😉
#16 by CurlsnSkirls on May 21, 2019 - 19:48
I’m enjoying seeing all the irises in any colour as they’re totally absent from landscape here. Did not know some are scented. But oh my, oh, my—caldrons… not in me remit!
#17 by tialys on May 22, 2019 - 09:03
I didn’t know either and my garden has a lot of iris – a lot of them growing ‘wild’ up the hill – so I’m going to have a proper sniff today.
#18 by CurlsnSkirls on May 22, 2019 - 14:27
Eager to hear complete analysis, by colour perhaps? 👃🏽 (supposed to be a nose, in case it looks too weird)
#19 by thecontentedcrafter on May 21, 2019 - 20:26
They are all so pretty – and I rather liked WD’s bronzed affair too but was too afraid to say so in case she popped me in her cauldron too 😀
#20 by tialys on May 21, 2019 - 20:43
I think WD is a kind, white witch so you didn’t need to worry. 😊
#21 by Wild Daffodil on May 21, 2019 - 21:29
😉 he he heeeee!
#22 by Wild Daffodil on May 21, 2019 - 21:33
Classy cauldron! And those irises are magnifi-cent …… speaking of which (witch) do they have a scent?
That brown is definitely a much more friendly hue than my nasty bunch, which have now turned inky black in the vase – I don’t trust them!
#23 by tialys on May 21, 2019 - 23:06
I’m not aware of any scent – I’ll try to get more up close and personal tomorrow without a camera in front of me and have a big sniff.
#24 by Nanette on May 21, 2019 - 22:02
I’d love a cauldron. A neighbour has a beauty in his yard but didn’t want to part with it a year or so ago. He’s in palliative care now, I keep wondering if it might be insensitive to ask if I can have it now!!?
I love all the irises, bit hot for them here, but I’d have any colour if I could grow them.
#25 by tialys on May 21, 2019 - 23:09
Ooh, difficult.
#26 by Nanette on May 22, 2019 - 00:39
Don’t think I’m b**lsy enough!
#27 by craftycreeky on May 21, 2019 - 22:33
I think I need to look out for some of these for my Amber & Amethyst garden, lovely colours 🙂
#28 by tialys on May 21, 2019 - 23:07
Yes, they’d be perfect wouldn’t they?
#29 by KerryCan on May 22, 2019 - 12:04
I think they’re quite lovely, especially the bronze ones. I don’t much care for purple and most of my irises are . . . purple. I need to get more exotic!
#30 by nottaholiday on May 23, 2019 - 05:53
Celebrating the return of “burnt orange” into the palette. It was the domain of caravan interiors for many years, but seems to have had a renaissance.
#31 by tialys on May 29, 2019 - 09:35
I remember those caravan interiors from my childhood – the colour looks much better in the open air.
#32 by Dartmoor Yarns on May 26, 2019 - 16:07
Not crazy about the brown/ burn orange/mustard palette – will definitely be adding anything of this hue to my cauldron.
#33 by tialys on May 29, 2019 - 09:37
Each witch to their own.
#34 by Wild Daffodil on May 29, 2019 - 09:52
🙂
#35 by dezertsuz on June 2, 2019 - 14:23
Iris has never been a favorite of mine, but these are quite lovely, and I might like the bronze ones more than the mix. Thanks for sharing – great cauldron!
#36 by tialys on June 3, 2019 - 12:23
I like the bronze ones too – they are very abundant, flowering away like mad at the moment.