{"id":18383,"date":"2010-05-20T22:25:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18383"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:12:14","slug":"three-new-iris-i-was-almost-too-busy-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/20\/three-new-iris-i-was-almost-too-busy-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Three New Iris I Was (Almost) Too Busy to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gotten busy around here, so busy that I&#8217;m not shaving, and barely taking time away from the keyboard for meals. Yesterday, I even forgot to walk to the end of the driveway to check for mail! And for a writer not to check his mail &#8230; well, you know how busy <i>that<\/i> means I must be!<\/p>\n<p>But I forced myself away from the computer for a few minutes to take a look at three new varieties of iris which bloomed today.<\/p>\n<p>First up, Lime Fizz, which I bought last year at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exlineirisgarden.com\/index.php\">Exline Iris Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520101-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iris520101\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520101-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520101.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Next comes River Hawk, picked up at the same time.  It may look similar to one of the earlier varieties, but that one had white upper petals, while these seem a pale lavender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520102-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iris520102\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520102-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520102.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, one of our older iris, which looks similar to an earlier purple variety I shared, but the purple of this one isn&#8217;t quite as deep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520103-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iris520103\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520103-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iris520103.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see all 16 varieties so far, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157623881473745\/\">flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;ll have to excuse me&#8212;I need to get back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gotten busy around here, so busy that I&#8217;m not shaving, and barely taking time away from the keyboard for meals. Yesterday, I even forgot to walk to the end of the driveway to check for mail! And for a writer not to check his mail &#8230; well, you know how busy that means I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-18383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18387,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383\/revisions\/18387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}