This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Superstition
Day 226: I have a particular fondness for "black" flowers and Superstition is about as black as iris can be. Seen here in bright light at close range, it looks purple, but from a distance (my living room window, for example), its hue deepens until the purple is no more than a highlight on its midnight falls. It is susceptible to variations in soil pH, however. Rootstock from this same plant produced mahogany-red blossoms when grown in another part of the yard.
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