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An exceptional year for irises, the flower that is a work of art on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save. Robin Lane Fox. June 5 2015. Jump to comments section Print this page.

So too for Irises, though here, change is also physical: today, its flowers appear blue when once they were violet. Vincent van Gogh, Irises (1889). Photo courtesy Getty Museum.

The resulting Irises is now owned by the Getty Center in Los Angeles, where many contemporary viewers have seen the painting’s blue-hued flowers—but they’re seeing a distorted version.

Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew. His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October.

Pardancanda norrisii is an iris-family flower child: created in the 1960s, more colorful than either of its parents, developed by an avid home gardener named Samuel Norris, who did it all for love ...

The museum is the Willott Iris Garden, which is located next to the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse and has more than 600 varieties of iris flowers on display.The collection was started by Tony and ...