Reticulate Iris - 2015

[udo]

today in flower,
Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown',
for me one of the best crosses from Alan McMurtrie

[Graeme]

In flower today in the Alpine house


Frank Elder?

Alida

Alida - close

dark form of KH

Pixie

[Graeme]

Palm Springs - its a big thing

Palm Springs Close up

SA Germaney

[Brian Ellis]

Lovely photos Graeme, I saw 'Alida' at the Harlow Show today and thought how nice it was but by the time I looked none for sale.

[johnstephen29]

Loverly pots of iris Graeme, you certainly know how to grow them.

[Graeme]

Loverly pots of iris Graeme, you certainly know how to grow them.

most of them are in long pots planted deep - sometimes though they still break up into small bulbs

[Graeme]

Lovely photos Graeme, I saw 'Alida' at the Harlow Show today and thought how nice it was but by the time I looked none for sale.

hi Brian - not had it long so only have a handful of bulbs - I bet the one on display was a potful
'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge

[carolesmith]

'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge

I saw and bought today at Harlow - I think the colouring is beautiful and was surprised at the height.

[Brian Ellis]

hi Brian - not had it long so only have a handful of bulbs - I bet the one on display was a potful
'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge

Yes it is lovely, we have it in the garden.

[Graeme]

I saw and bought today at Harlow - I think the colouring is beautiful and was surprised at the height.

I bought it without seeing it - I was just assured it was big - you can tell the size of the flowers as there is a pot of ipheion charlotte bishop next to it with a flower on that I had not noticed

[Graeme]

Yes it is lovely, we have it in the garden.

I tend not to have any outside - too cold and wet - but I don't seem to be able to bulk them up very quickly in pots

[johnstephen29]

most of them are in long pots planted deep - sometimes though they still break up into small bulbs

I have most trouble with danfordiae doing that, into little grains of rice, takes them ages to flower.

[Mark Griffiths]

I bought some Katherine Hodgkin a few weeks back - I'm assuming the "ink blots" on the standards and falls are signs of virus?

Given the pot is packed is there any point in trying to seperate them out to try and find unvirused one? Can it be done when they are in growth or simply pot them up singly over the summer/ autumn and wait for reflowering?

[Brian Ellis]

I tend not to have any outside - too cold and wet - but I don't seem to be able to bulk them up very quickly in pots

Yes I can see that could be the case in Derbyshire, fortunately the East of England is a lot drier.

[Graeme]

Yes I can see that could be the case in Derbyshire, fortunately the East of England is a lot drier.

Wife grows a lot of lavender - so we do go to Norfolk at least once a year in the summer - there are times when I could do with that climate and soil