Blackberry lily (Iris domestica) thrives in the gardens. When Russel Kraus sold the "Kraus House" to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation he gave me several and they are growing well in many places. It was formerly called Belamcandia chinensis but based on DNA evidence in 2005 it was moved to the Iris genus.
I. domestica grows with rhizomes in shallow ground which extend horizontally. It has 3-5-stems and its leaves grow in a fan, with flowers having orange-red scattered spots of darker pigment.
The seed pods open in the fall, showing clusters of black, shiny seeds whose resemblance to those of a blackberry gives the plant its common name "blackberry lily".
As in dreams
behind high doors there is nothing,
not even emptiness.
As in dreams
behind the face that looks at us there is no one.
Obverse without a reverse,
one-sided coin, the side of things.
That pittance is the boon
tossed to us by hastening time.
We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.
behind high doors there is nothing,
not even emptiness.
As in dreams
behind the face that looks at us there is no one.
Obverse without a reverse,
one-sided coin, the side of things.
That pittance is the boon
tossed to us by hastening time.
We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges
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