Your choice to offset your subject was smart too! Good colors and crisp photo.

with Sheila about the offset but also the companion plants set the subject off nicely. Your photo was one of my favorite 3 and I don't even do irises (I'm a succulent person) so it was quite a feat for me to look at 163 photos of them and vote.

Thank you both!
It was a last minute addition--I spent some number of hours searching for a photo that I knew I had somewhere of iris and lupines, never found it, and settled for this one with the baptisia--glad it pleased the eyes of a few