This beautiful flower is from a (Large) Wild Iris plant, also known as the Fairy Iris – a native of that treasure-house of beautiful and exotic plants, South Africa. Fortunately it is now also a very common feature in parks and homes around my home city of Perth, so common in fact, it has been declared an ‘Environmental weed‘ in Western Australia!
What a cheek! 😲
(Click on image to open in a new window and click again to expand) 🙂
I was fortunate enough to find this particular beauty while going for a walk around a nearby reserve and playing area. It had just been raining and the flower was beginning to uncurl and to dry out in the Spring sunshine 🙂
As you can see it was not on it’s own! 🙂
These flowers were standing about a metre or more tall (3 feet plus)!
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Cee’s Flower of the Day – October 31, 2019 – Chinese Lantern
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You have a piece of me right there with you 😉 That flower is from my country 🙂
Weed? How dare they! Then again, whatever they call it, it doesn’t detract from its beauty 🙂
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I posted it in your honour! (true!)
I have several ‘pieces’ of ‘you’ with me (more flowers in my garden! Ixia, Daisies, Tritonia, etc).
I’d rather have the whole thing! 🙂 x
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You’re making me blush 😉
The whole package would be tough to plant in your garden 😛
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I’m certain i could find a nice bed to put you in! 😉 :-p
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Oh my word! Too funny! I laughed out loud – a bit too loud – at this comment 😛 Guess I walked right into that one 🙈😂😂
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You did kinda leave yourself open there, huh? 😉
Keep it up! 🙂
Now CONCENTRATE – you have some important things to do today! And hopefully i can find time to finish some of my replies and take some pics while you are taking care of family and business! 🙂
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I always concentrate – sometimes my focus is just shifted 😛😉
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That is permissible – as an amateur photographer i realise it’s not always easy to stay in focus, particularly when the action is coming on fast and there may be a lot of things competing for different areas of your brain’s attention! 🙂
it’s a matter of being able to keep things in perspective while being able to see the Big Picture – it’s an art that is difficult to master fully. 🙂
xxx
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But an art that is worthy of developing 😉
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Ohh you did NOT just pun me…. DID YOU?? 😉
Have i mentioned that i love the way your mind works??? 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I knew you’d pick up on that 😛 😉
Your mind is really great too! 🙂
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That is an absolutely stunning photograph.
Sorry I forgot which word I was supposed to use for the poetry. I blame it on the bend in my technology…..
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Thank you kindly!
The word was Blancmange – i’m not surprised you forgot that one! 😉
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No that one was well buried in my brain.
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You want a new one or are you up to it again for next time?
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Hey, it looks just like a fortnight lily, but no spotted leaves.
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Hmmm… i’ve seen this flower with three different genus names so far – all Dietes xxx and four or so ‘given’ names.
The ‘spotted’ effect on this one was i think due to the previous rain shower and or it getting ‘old’ as normally the petals are pure white. 🙂
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I’d be happy with such weeds in our garden.
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I now have two large-ish clumps growing in my garden that i planted frm a seed pod i ‘stole’ from some next to a footpath i walk at the hospital i visit! 🙂
They seem to need a few years/before they send up flower stalks but i will post them when the do! 🙂
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