Iris and some Irids 2006-2007

[David Nicholson]

Yes please, please, please,please Lesley

[Lesley Cox]

It's on the way today David, along with the auricula which I couldn't send yesterday as I'd forgotten it was a public holiday (Otago Anniv Day) and the PO was closed, as well as everywhere else I needed to go. So both off now. There's still plenty of the seed to ripen fully over the next few days.

[Maggi Young]

  Please see this page for  Bearded Iris:  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=371.0

[Joakim B]

Maggi My comment was not necessary to make a new thread, especially not under Bulbs general since bearded iris in not really a bulb or is it, but to hope for a headline of iris like crocus and primula. Then it might have been better to have all iris in one tread including the junis but that is abit late now I think. That was only wishfull thinking with more headlines like galanthus and narcissus and have bulbs general for the more odd ones. It was an attempt to have more headlines so that will be easier in a year to find the treads one are interested in. As it is now with pages it is not that easy to find the treads one are interested in if one comes new to the forum. Maybe this comment should be in general forum. It is tricky to make it right. 

Sorry for making confusion 
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Joakim, I have moved the bearded iris page to Flowers and Foliage Now, in the All Plants section

[mark smyth]

I was given a very small Iris yesterday but no name. The donor thinks it may have Bowles in the name

[Lesley Cox]

Nothing rings a bell Mark. Can you get a picture?

[mark smyth]

yes I will when it flowers.

[Joakim B]

Since this one might not be a bearded one I thought it might fit here.

Warning on the first picture I show my bare legs so for sensitive viewers be aware. I work in shorts in the glassed veranda. 
It is a iris? that is a free passanger to a shroub that I bought just for that iris? !
It is nice to feel rich  It was a cost of 1€ and it also included a second free passenger that was a nice clump of for-get-me-not.
(That name is the same in most languagees it is funny).
The flower faded befor I could take a picture but I tried to take one anyway and there is olso one on the foliage. Is it possible to ID the plant so that I know if it is a iris or not?

I wanted to buy some irises but they had none for sale, but they had irises as freepassengers in hibiscus syracusa plants that were sold for 1€ so I bought 3 and will have the hibiscus in Portugal, Sweden and Hungary.  Often this is a trick to sell badly rooted plants (and generally much more expencive than that), but as you can see on the pics the roots were strong.
These irises seem to be normal bearded irises.

Hope You can help me identify what I got.

[Maggi Young]

I think your Iris looks a bit like a Libertia of some sort. In Scotland they don't flower until summer. The flowers are about the size of 1 euro and are several to a stem, not all out at once. Leaves are more grassy, more wiry, than most irises.

[Joakim B]

I hope there will be more flowers they seem to be at least 2 and not coming at the same time. The color was white. I will also check if it is a Libertia. The size of the flower was slightly smaller and the leafs are somehere between the ones for germanica and sibirica, but closer to germanica.
Thanks for the help
Joakim

[Joakim B]

Still no new flowers on the unknown iris/libertia but some new from the bulbs planted late winter.
Most have turned out to be blue like this and previosly shown but now there are two withse one indoors that is small and tight and one outdoor much more relaxed. The plants also differ a lot in size.
Blue outdoor,
white outdoor big relaxed
and white in dor tiny and petit
Joakim

[Rafa]

Hello,

I bought this Iris as an Iris narcissiflora but obiously it is not. After reading Flora of China 24: 297–312. 2000, Iridaceae part, and measuring the plant I think that this species corresponds to Iris dolichosiphon subsp. dolichosiphon

[mark smyth]

I like the Leopard print on the falls

[Lesley Cox]

It's very like my I. hookeriana but that is stemless. Same group I think.