Gorgeous, aren't they? Those are Owens Valley wild iris. In their native home they are much paler and less than 18 inches tall. The day I moved out of DS, I put in the truck two wizened little rhizomes that had survived the landscaping around MidFac. After multiplying them for a few years in Texas, they were planted around a rotting stump in Michigan, where they overwintered just fine. In Michigan, they were more than 30 inches high and had 3 or 4 blooms on each stalk, in the clear lavender you see above.Photos taken with my old camera. For a great professional picture of them in the wild, see here.
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