Japanese iris (unknown cultivar)

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Japanese Water iris (Iris ensata ‘Pin Stripe’)

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Pitcher plants

Pitcher plants (the white ones are Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Titan’ and I believe the red ones are Sarracenia rubra or sweet pitcher plant)

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Violas

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Larkspur blooms

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Poppy

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Visual overload: Love-in-a-mist and peonies

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Spiderwort

Virginia spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana), if I’m not mistaken

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Blue Flag iris ‘John Wood’

Blue Flag iris ‘John Wood’ (Iris versicolor)

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Come a little bit closer…you’re my kind of bloom

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena)

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A profusion of Love-in-a-mist blooms

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Love-in-a-mist and peonies

Lovely love-in-a-mist (Nigella damscena) against a backdrop of a cluster of deep pink-red peonies

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Star of Persia and Japanese sedge

Star of Persia unopened bloom against Japanese sedge

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Star of Persia and Japanese sedge

Star of Persia (Allium christophii) against a background of Japanese sedge (purple + lime green = WOW)

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Hoverfly on ‘Sweet Kate’ spiderwort

Flowerfly (or hoverfly) on ‘Sweet Kate’ spiderwort (I enlarged the little guy so you can see it closeup)

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Copper iris

Copper iris (Iris fulva)

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Bearded iris

Yummy sherbet colors! This Bearded iris cultivar wasn’t labeled, so I don’t know what the name is. The colors were so delicious!

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Copper iris

Copper iris (Iris fulva). I spent a blissful half hour photographing these irises under a tree canopy with the most beautiful background light filtering through—looking for the perfect bokeh (and waiting for the wind to behave)!

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Cicada on ‘Sweet Kate’ spiderwort

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Urn orchid

Urn orchid (Bletilla striata); also called Hyacinth orchid; photographed at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, VA

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Blue wild indigo

Blue wild indigo or Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis), photographed at Green Spring Gardens

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‘Tropic Night’ Iris sibirica

Iris sibirica ‘Tropic Night’ (Species is native from Europe to Western Asia and Siberia); photographed at Green Spring Gardens

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‘Cora Louise’ peony

And here’s a giant peony—first time I’ve seen this one at Green Spring. The blooms were the size of salad plates!

UPDATE 5/1/2018: Special thanks to Lisa Jackson (she runs the store at Green Spring Gardens’ Horticultural Center) for the identification on this beautiful peony. It’s an “itoh” (intersectional hybrid) peony named ‘Cora Louise.’

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Cicada on Love-in-a-mist

Ah…finally out and shooting flowers for the first time this season, thanks to the urging of my dear friend Michael Powell on this beautiful Sunday. We went to Green Spring Gardens to shoot and although it was pretty windy for photography, we both still managed to capture some images in between blusters! Here’s a shot I got of a cicada making its way through a cluster of love-in-a-mist blooms.

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