Bearded Iris 2017

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This iris came from a friend as iris subbiflora x revoluta
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This iris was grown from AGS Seedex 2007 as Iris sp ex Turkey and was ID'd as Iris taochia
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This iris was grown from SRGC Sdx 2004 as Iris subbiflora, but I was told it is not typical so may be a hybrid or some other species
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[arillady]

A few of the species irises that have been flowering.
The first two I need a name as the tag has faded and I don't think I recorded the planting plan.
Iris bicapitata - I seem to have a few colour forms now.
Iris lutescens RBGG Aix en Province 308 from FD. Very small growing. First year flowering.
Iris subbiflora.
Loved you photo above Fermi.






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[Maggi Young]

An old pal showed me this wonderful gold and diamond Iris brooch, from the Art Nouveayu period - it is so lovely, I had to share it here .... it  captures the flower so well....

[David Nicholson]

Bet there's a bob or two there?

[Maggi Young]

Bet there's a bob or two there?

I shudder to think  David!  Mind you, it won't  get rust or virus and  will live forever!

[David Nicholson]

Ah well, as the song goes-"diamonds are a girl's best friend"

[Leena]

I love the yellow irises in Pat's pictures above!

This is an old cultivar 'Flavescens', which does well here. It has been found here in old gardens and some years ago I got a name for this lemon scented iris. In the third picture in front of 'Flavescens' there is possibly 'Gracchus', also an old cultivar. I got it from a friend who had found it growing in the neglected garden of an abandoned old house.