Late-Blooming Beauty

IMG_4211 I haven't managed to clean out and replant the long flower bed at the end of my driveway yet this season and now I have a reward for my procrastination.  A single iris has thrown up a third bloom (these irises typically bloom in May/June and again in September).  It is a bright spot of joy amidst all the brown dying foliage.

 

There are three more buds on this stalk and as I plan to work in this flower bed this weekend, I shall simply have to work around it and save this small section for later, or next spring.

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2 responses to “Late-Blooming Beauty”

  1. NancyDaQ Avatar

    How beautiful!

  2. materfamilias Avatar

    That’s gorgeous — interesting to see how the purple looks in the very different light of late fall, whose colours are generally more mellow than the sharper ones that show up in spring.