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Deep green background, yellow signal, clean light. Sometimes the shot comes together fast. The Giant Blue Iris didn't make me wait.

#NaturePhotography #LouisianaIris

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It's #LouisianaIris season here in #Louisiana , and these wild beauties are my favorite #flowers. They grow in the wetlands, swamps, and even ditches, and it's important to me to help protect them.

As I wean myself off EffaceBook, I'm documenting favorite posts from years past. This one is from 2016.

My father Sidney Lamar Conger with one of his registered #LouisianaIris cultivars at my grandmother's garden in my hometown of #ArcadiaLA. Note the lushness. At #NanceKlehm 's soil health ...
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#LouisianaIris and snapdragon in the morning of the #NewOrleansBlizzard in the Marigny neighborhood.

Brava! What are the dimensions of your pond, please?

During a graduate school quarter break in 1996, I excavated and installed a 2' x 2' x 2' pond and loaded it with #California #NativePlants, but also a couple of pots of my father's registered #LouisianaIris cultivars. Similar wildlife came!

My first cousin lives in a rhododendron forest in far W NC — #PisgahForest. My father named one of his registered #LouisianaIris hybrids 'Captain Bill' (pictured) after her father. Don't get me t' proselytizin' 'bout Loozianas. I descend from gardeners on both sides who championed native plants!

There are 5 species of irises that are known as #LouisianaIris, though their range extends to several states. My father was a noted (kind of early, hybridizer, 1950s-70s) in N. La. He specialized in reds. Where's the swamp walk that leads you past native irises?! (Thanks for the post.)