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Shades of Pink & Purple Irises

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 20, 2016 | Flowers, Iridaceae Family

I love photographing irises. This spring I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days photographing irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey. There were literally hundreds of varieties of irises blooming when I visited. I photographed at least 60 different types of irises – so it’s going to take me several posts to share them with you.

Today I’ll be sharing some of my photos of irises in shades of pink & purple

Florentine Silk Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Good Golly Miss Molly Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Hello Darkness iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this set of iris photos. I’ll be sharing more iris photos soon.

Shades of Orange Irises

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 11, 2016 | Flowers, Iridaceae Family

I love photographing irises. This spring I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days photographing irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey. There were literally hundreds of varieties of irises blooming when I visited. I photographed at least 60 different types of irises – so it’s going to take me several posts to share them with you.

Today I’ll be sharing the rest of my photos of irises in shades of orange

Glimmer of Hope Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this set of iris photos. I’ll be sharing more of my iris photos soon

Shades of Orange Irises

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jun 29, 2016 | Flowers, Iridaceae Family

I love photographing irises. This spring I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days photographing irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey. There were literally hundreds of varieties of irises blooming when I visited. I photographed at least 60 different types of irises – so it’s going to take me several posts to share them with you.

Today I’ll be sharing some of my photos of irises in shades of orange (and a few peach colored ones).

American Sweetheart Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Border Skirmish Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this set of iris photos. I’ll be sharing more of my iris photos soon

Shades of Yellow Irises

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jun 20, 2016 | Flowers, Iridaceae Family

I love photographing irises. This spring I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days photographing irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey. There were literally hundreds of varieties of irises blooming when I visited. I photographed at least 60 different types of irises – so it’s going to take me several posts to share them with you.

Today I’ll be sharing my photos of irises in shades of yellow.

Alessandra's Gift Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Battle of the Bands Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Better Than Butter Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Cappachino Lace Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Point to the Sun Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Taylor P Made Iris © 2016 Patty HankinsTaylor P Made Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

That's All Folks Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

Tomorrow's Vision Iris © 2016 Patty Hankins

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this set of iris photos. I’ll be sharing my of my iris photos soon

Irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jun 17, 2016 | Flowers, Iridaceae Family

In late May I took a quick trip to New Jersey to visit one of my favorite gardens – Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in Upper Montclair. Established in the 1920s in honor of Frank H. Presby, a founder of the American Iris Society. the collection of irises at the gardens includes over 1500 different varieties of irises, featuring 10,000 plants with over 100,000 blooms each season. For a few weeks each spring, Presby offers a chance to see everything from heirloom irises dating back to the 1500s to the latest showy irises. As you can imagine – it’s absolutely incredible to see.

In my two visits to the gardens this year, I photographed over 60 types of bearded irises. My guess is there were several hundred varieties of irises blooming while I was there. I could easily have spent several days photographing irises and still not photographed all the amazing blossoms.

Here are a few of my favorite photos from the trip.

Better Than Butter Iris

Cavewoman Iris

Celtic Glory Iris

Florentine Silk Iris

Glimmer of Hope Iris

Husky Iris

Magic Mirror Iris

Song of Norway Iris

That’s All Folks Iris

Wench Iris

I’ll be sharing the full set of the iris photos I took at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in the coming weeks.

In the coming months, I’ll be offering some of these photos for sale on my website. In the meantime, I do have several other iris photos available for sale. You can see the ones currently available at http://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/iris/