International Bearded Iris Day!

Today is bearded iris day, which I totally made up a few mintues ago. But there should be one. What beautiful, odd flowers, almost like tissue paper, in so many colours, like pale blue:

Medium blue (and it really is that colour. I didn't modify it):

Dark purple:

Yellow purple:

This lovely, faded beauty that reminds me of French silk for some reason. Can't you picture these colours in a haute couture gown?

Actually, they kind of remind me of tongues.

Big, dog tongues.