A type of flower that may have beards, falls, flounces, horns, laminata, standards, signals and ruffles has to be accorded respect. Having said that, some of you might observe this ‘ordinary’ blue iris is lacking some of the twiddly bits its fancier bearded cousins can proudly display.
You might agree with me that the sunlight dancing on its upper petals and its clear, veined beelines left little to be desired: that the simple iris need not aspire to anything more. But who are we to rein in aspiration if an iris chooses to conceal its beardlessness under a fake beard supplied by a furry visitor?
Perhaps we ought to pretend we haven’t noticed.
Hope you’ll all have a great weekend, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing.
Susan Rushton 
Love the fake beard – a few of my flowers are sporting the same 🙂
🙂
The plant I’m noticing the most bees on at the moment is a similarly coloured geranium. Every one I see is alive with bees.
The sun has finally made an appearance here and the bees are swarming around the geraniums and lamb’s ear blossoms – a wonderful buzzing sound!
GREAT POST! I didn’t notice the bee at first and I was wondering what fake beard. I had to read twice and then noticed the bee! GREAT SHOT!
Thanks! I’m glad you went back for a closer look.
Beautiful pictures, beautiful flower!
How nice of you to say so!
Gorgeous. Though I see it as purple!
I know what you mean.
As long as there are no fake noses. Thanks for the nice chuckle.
I’ve never seen one with a fake nose, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one out there 🙂
Irises are not my favourite, despite their colour, but then I saw a bunch in front a a bush of beautiful white flowers and I changed my mind. They were so lovely.
It’s good to be able to change our minds, especially if it adds in another thing we can enjoy. I had a similar experience with red hot pokers. I didn’t like them until I saw a garden full of them in the evening sun.