with the large-flowered Chinese Lonicera tragophylla
this apricot clone brings a gentler
and the fruit feeds robins
light honey long tied to the pinewoods and bogs of the South
the stems shoot up fast in the heat
Iris fulva 26/1 Restock with the large-flowered Chinese LoniceraAmong the wild irises of North America, Iris fulva is the one that broke the color rules. Where the family runs to blues, purples, and yellows, the copper iris opens in warm coppery red to burnt orange, a shade no other native iris offers, carried on slender stems in late spring and early summer with a soft, slightly drooping poise. The Latin fulva, meaning tawny or reddish brown, records that unusual color, and the common names, copper iris and red