Iryssima vs Messer Tulipano or Iris vs Tulips

This blog trats of a wonderful fair that every year is held in Pralormo (Turin), Piedmont, close to my cultivations. Usually I find a lot of cars slowing down my way to Govone and my curiosity grew, also because all Turin is covered with reclames for this unique exposition of around 80.000 colorfull tulips

This fantastic exposition is held in the gardens of the Castle of Pralormo, with quite a perfect match of ancient beauty and new nobility.

So on 23th April 2018 I went to visit it and it was time. The numbers are impressive but the total surface - for my eyes - quite reduced. The colours are quite amazing and the effect unique. Well "unique"... I would say almost unique, considering the iris cultivations of Iryssima.

In fact, having in mind the records of the images of Messer Tulipano (Mr. Tulip, but "Messer" is very old Italian) I went to Govone to see the Iris and their monotone colours.

I compare the pictures here underneath 1 tulips vs 1 iris:

Messer Tulipano

Iryssima

Messer Tulipano

Iryssima

Messer Tulipano

Iryssima

Messer Tulipano

Iryssima

Iryssima

Flowers vs flowers: what a beautiful and colourful fight!

Messer Tulipano

Well, one (Messer Tulipano of Pralormo)  is a real garden the other (Iryssima in Govone) a simple fields. But I liked this little comparision.

I hope you enjoed the beauty of the nature: nothing is so elegant and unique like this.

Fields of Iris Germanica & Pallida 2018

Dear all,

after a quite long winter, with very low temperatures in December 2017 (till - 11°  C) and a lot of snow and an unbelievable quantity of water - well I would say a real long lasting shower - starting from February 2018 till April 2018, the Spring has come!

Temperatures over 26° C: in one week we passed from 5° C to a full summer day.

The iris that were sleeping till beginning of April 2018 started to blossom with a 15 days delay.

Top: the situation of the iris fields on 15th April 2018! Note how nude are the trees and the fields full of water while the sky is somehow winterish. Real cold. No flowers at all!


But after a few days the magic of the warmth of the nature made possible that everything awakes like in a sort of dance of colours and harmony.

The vision is quite impressive, I would say: the iris Germanica's are going to blossom!!

An almost total vision of the fields:

and here - bottom -  a picture with a close view: amazing colours!