This is a plein air oil painting created at Longs Gardens in Boulder, CO. Longs Gardens is celebrating their 108th year in 2013. Their lovely property includes a Tudor style farmhouse, offices in a early 1900s seed store, barns, goat shed, antique farm machinery and tractors. They specialize in an abundant variety of bearded irises and dwarf bearded irises, have fields of brilliant poppies and fruit orchards.