Irises: Let's post historics, 1 by constance22

constance22 wrote:
Re: Demi-Deuil (Half-mourning)


In Regency times, after the loss of a spouse one would wear for a year what was called "full mourning," meaning one only wore black, followed by a six-month to one-year period of wearing what was called "half-mourning", during which one would wear only gray, or lavender, or some other non-black yet somber shade.

(Which is why Queen Victoria's choice to wear full mourning for the rest of her life after Prince Albert's death was so unusual.)


On a completely different note, here's i. subbiflora.

Well, that's what its marker says.

But now I'm wondering if it might not be -- Perfection?

(It's in a bed where perfection is supposed to be, and all these new iris have gotten very mixed up.)

Thoughts, anyone?

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