After 3 years since I built my small garden pond and planted this Yellow Flag Iris Iris pseudacorus it has flowered for the very first time to my joy. This is the first bloom, and it looks like there are many more to come.
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May 2018, garden pond, rear garden, Staffordshire, England. © Pete Hillman Sigma 18-300mm.
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Worth waiting for Pete!!
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I thought they might not ever flower! But yes, worth the wait! Thank you, Anita 🙂
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Wow! It’s beautiful. Your wait for three years has shown up successfully. Nature never disappoints one.
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Thank you, Himanshi 🙂 You are right, nature never disappoints! 🙂
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Your patience paid off. These are like a ray of sunshine!
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Thank you, Sandy 🙂 And what a beautiful way to describe them 🙂
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Wow, vibrant color 👍
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Thank you, Ted 🙂 They are one of those stand out flowers.
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They’re so beautiful. It’s hard to have patience when waiting for something delightful, but it certainly was worth it!
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Thank you, Linda 🙂 Somethings are just worth waiting for! 🙂
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Very nice images, Pete. May theses beauties bring you much joy for years to come!
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Thank you very much, Ellen 🙂 I hope so!
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They are beautiful. How nice to see them arrive this spring😊
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂 You can imagine how chuffed I am 🙂
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They are a beautiful golden yellow, how lovely!
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Thank you, Liz 🙂 I love seeing these out in the wild growing on pond margins or canal banks.
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Oh that must be very pretty! Didn’t realise they were so widespread, must look wonderful when they’re in flower.
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They are, and they are wonderful, Liz 🙂
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What a treat. I think I first saw yellow flags as a child on Anglesey, and was captivated even then.
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Sure is a treat, Tish. Thank you 🙂
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Glorious bounty captured Pete!! 😊💗
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Thank you, Diana 🙂
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Beautiful addition to the pond Pete, all you need is a Swallowtail on it 🙂
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Thank you, Brian 🙂 I think the only way I will get a Swallowtail on it is if the Swallowtail Moth lands on it. Or I print and cut out one of your very fine images and glue it on, lol! 🙂
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Well worth the wait! Very attractive and you’ve photographed it at the best time in my mind – just as the buds are newly opened.
Could you please post a photo of your pond at the current time showing what’s grown. I seem to remember you posting a photo when you first built it about 18 months (?) ago and I would be interested to see how it looks now that it’s been through a full series of seasons.
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Thank you, Vicki 🙂 When the weather clears I will post a photo of the pond, thank you for asking, and hopefully more of these flowers will be showing 🙂
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I inherited these irises and they have flowered each year in May, but this year the first one opened today! So a little later than usual. They grow very tall and can look tatty when the leaves start to die, but when flowering in a group they are quite lovely.
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Well today the other buds seem to have stopped opening dead in their tracks and this single flower is sopping wet and drooping after a day of heavy rain. And I think thunderstorms are forecast for Sunday here. Mind you the gardens do need the rain 🙂
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Beautiful! Glad your wait has ended, Pete. 🙂
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Thank you, Anita 🙂 So am I! 🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thank you 🙂
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Hello
Iris is a wonderful flower. Yellow’s grove ner water I think.
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Thank you 🙂
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Congratulations – a beautiful flower!
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… beautiful …
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Thank you, Anki 🙂
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Another welcome show of colour in your garden. definitely worth the wait.
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It sure was, Jill! 🙂
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congratulations – i love thse yellow irises – I have some blooming too at the moment
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Thank you 🙂 I am glad you are enjoying theme there, too!
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What a joy! I hope they will blooming for a while!
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Thank you, Simone 🙂 Unfortunately they can be short lived, especially with the storms roaming the skies today.
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I guess now your flag irises have settled in they’ll start taking over the pond. Enjoy them while they’re young!
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I will, Judith, thank you 🙂 The Water Mint almost overran it last year and I had to remove some.
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