JUNO IRIS, 2016

[Cyril L]

Iris persica BATMAN 058, from a friend last year.

[Cfred72]

Beautiful, dark and delicate at once

[Cyril L]

Thank you Fred.  My friend told me it flowers regularly with him rather than split into numerous smaller non-flowering bulbs as some I. persica clones do.

[Michael J Campbell]

Juno Iris, morning sky

[ebbie]

More Junos

Iris stenophylla ssp.allisonii:


Iris nicolai:


Iris rosenbachiana 'Harangon':

[Maggi Young]

Some fine plants flowering with you now, Ebbie.

[Tasmanian Taffy]

Hi Ebbie,
I absolutely love your Junos Iris did you grow them from seed.
Regards John.

[Lesley Cox]

Gentlemen, Thank you all so very much for showing and sharing these amazing pictures of such glorious flowers. I love these irises more than any others even though the smaller and rarer ones are not available to us in New Zealand. If I go to my grave with  these pictures in my mind I shall die happy.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm rather hoping I can post a picture here of a Juno from way back in 2005 because it is unlike anything I have seen elsewhere. Tony Hall thinks it is a hybrid, perhaps with a form of orchioides. I can't see it myself but then, I'm no expert as Tony undoubtedly is. What it is NOT, is kuschakewiczii, the seed I had ordered (from Pilous as I remember) and grew it under that name until it flowered. Over the next 4 years It grew on nicely and set seed three times then almost over night, or over one season, the whole lot died and it was gone forever.

I say hoping to post the picture because I've to retrieve it from Picasa 3 and I'm not sure how to do that yet. Here goes.

[Lesley Cox]

Bother, the right plant but not the right picture which had truer colour, a lovely lime green and showed the flower shape better. Then I was going to attach another showing the slender tube and that there was no stem as such. I have a lot to learn about the programmes on this new laptop!

[Lesley Cox]

Maybe I've cracked it this time?

[BULBISSIME]

Back from Jordan looking for Iris postii in the desert

[Maggi Young]

Looks like you found it, Fred! 

[ebbie]

John, I've never growed Junos from seed. I think that is a lengthy process.

Lesley, maybe Iris caucasica?

Fred, a fantastic Juno!


Two Junos here:

Iris rosenbachiana 'Tovil Dara'


Iris galatica, with similar color but shorter

[Steve Garvie]

A couple of forms of Iris wilmottiana in flower here.