Brenda Landrum

The anticipation of Spring blooms is what gets gardeners hearts excited. When the garden starts to grow the very first green leaves and plants start to come alive is what we wait for all winter long. Some of the first blooms to see are tulips and daffodils (if planted in the Fall) along with iris and blooming trees. For me it is very important to have these spring bloomers planted because it brings so much joy after a brown cold winter season.

I have been gifted so many beautiful iris’s from family and friends (who feel like family) in Nebraska as we have been transforming our backyard over the last 3 years. There are many colors but this one particular iris with its creamy white, yellow and orange coloring really caught my eye. It’s been a little hard cutting flowers out of the garden because I’m enjoying them there to bring inside and photograph but I just had to with this gorgeous bloom.

I’m all about the details of flowers. The wavy petal edges, the way petals fold around each other, the deeper colors in the center, the beard of an iris, and how the bloom comes out of the stem. I love the flower as a whole but it’s when you start to get in closer and really exam a single bloom that you see all the little details that makes it so beautiful. These are the things that I love to photograph.

I can’t wait until next Spring to see all the gorgeous iris bloom again and discover which one catches my eye to photograph. There’s that anticipation again, the longing to discover the garden all over again.

Prints available of all images. Please email me at brendalandrum@gmail.com