The lovely plant is the part of the Iridaceae family with such common relative as freesia. In some languages, iris is called flags or sword flags, symbolizing heraldry and royalty. Japanese believe that iris’ shape displays heroism and its blue color is related to blue blood. Thus, irises play an important role in their spring holiday for boys. In addition, the Iris represents the National Emblem of France. The flower stands for ‘wisdom, hope and my compliments’.
In general the flower is considered to be a spring one, although the majority of its species are available at any season of the year in White, yellow, blue, purple colors. These dainty flowers have one of the shortest cut flower vase life’s lasting that is about 3-6 days.
Due to iris’ distinctive shapes, it is often used as form bloom in flower designs and arrangements. Beside of its height is very suitable for using it as line flowers to assist settle shapes and sizes of designs.
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