Stunning iris.

[stateless]

beautiful, one of my favorite garden flowers when i lived up north, and for some reason we called iris, 'flags', thanks for sharing

[gardenguysorchids]

beautiful, one of my favorite garden flowers when i lived up north, and for some reason we called iris, 'flags', thanks for sharing

Ed, one of the reasons they were called flags was because they were always in bloom for Memorial Day and were a common flower used to decorate graves with. I remember as a child seeing large arrangements of iris and peonies decorating the graves of not only veterans but all deceased loved ones. In my area of Pennsylvania another name used for Memorial Day was Decoration Day and was a day that all graves were decorated with flowers.