Iris reticulata season - Hermodactyloides and Scorpiris

[Yann]

Iris hyrcana, and easy one, more to come as 7-8 buds are ready to open in few days.

[Véronique Macrelle]

do you manage to multiply them by seed?

[Alan McMurtrie]

I have just updated www.Reticulatas.com with over 500 photos from 2020.  The site shows a lot of my work to-date; including parentage.  It focuses on 2n=18 Reticulatas since that's where I've opened up a whole new world of colours and patterns.  It's hard to know what is possible until it "magically" appears.  It's always a treat to see what opens for the first time each Spring.  In the past, working with 2n=20 species and hybrids, I'd just get more of the same -- more blues and purples.  I specifically tried to acquire collected forms with different genetics to what was in commerce in order to try to open up the expression in hybrids, but it didn't make a lot of difference.  More collected forms are available now than in the 80s and 90s.  At the time, White Caucasus showed promise, but since I was getting much more dramatic results from the 2n=18 hybrids I focused on those [see www.reticulatas.com/1998-101.html and compare results from the 98-OO and 98-NP crosses to the 98-YS cross which gave Holland Glory].  In recent years I have made some crosses (dabbled) with White Caucasus.  We now know Norman Steven's Halkis is 2n=18, and the Adiyaman Retic is 2n=16 (I'm surprised how difficult its been to get to bloom -- it seemed to do well for John Amand), and we have the stoloniferous Iris sisianica [which has been converted to tetraploid, but material has not yet been delivered -- hopefully Fall 2021; but it could then be 2 years before it blooms (i.e. Spring 2024)].  Exciting possibilities for the future...

Variety is the spice of life.

I look forward to seeing what SRGC members post in 2021 -- old favourites, collected forms, etc.

[Yann]

do you manage to multiply them by seed?

Yes and i already cutted spares.

[Roma]

Iris 'Alida'



Iris 'Clairette'



Iris 'Sheila Anne Germany'



Not sure about this one.  It came as 'Halkis' which it isn't.  'Spot On'?  'Fabiola' ?

[Alan McMurtrie]

Leopard (12-IO-1) blooming for the first time in Holland


North Star -- a touch past peak bloom


07-CU-3


Eye Catcher [tetraploid]


It's Magic [tetrploid]



Note: photos were taken by Jan Ligthart in Holland

[Joakim B]

Nice ones Alan
Hope they soon will be in numbers so a lot can get them
They are quite striking

[Maggi Young]

The following sets of photos are  from the Iris collection of Dimitri Zubov -  Hermodactyloides and Scorpiris






I. kurbanovii, Turkmenistan &   'Orange Glow'





'Orange Glow'

[Maggi Young]

'Dubonair'    ( Debonair?)


'Sea Green'




I. reticulata 'Spot On' &  I. reticulata ex Peter Taggart


I. reticulata ex Peter Taggart

[Maggi Young]

I. reticulata ex Peter Taggart


I. histrioides 'Michael's Angel' & I. reticulata 'Spot On' & ex Peter Taggart


I. histrioides 'Michael's Angel'



I. histrio subsp. aintabensis, Gaziantep, S Turkey



I. hymenospatha subsp. leptoneura, Zagros Range, Iran

[Maggi Young]

I. hyrcana, Lerik, Azerbaihan & I. reticulata, Olang Pass, NE Iran


I. kurdica, Turkey



I. kurdica, Turkey


I. kurdica, Turkey



I. reticulata Kuhha-e-Abr, Iran

[Maggi Young]

I. reticulata Kuhha-e-Abr, Iran


I. reticulata, Alvand, W Iran


I. reticulata, Ardabil, Iran



I. reticulata, Arevik Mnts, Zangezur Range, Armenia & I. histrioides 'Michael's Angel' 


I. reticulata, Arevik Mnts, Zangezur Range, Armenia & I. histrioides 'Michael's Angel'

[Maggi Young]

I. reticulata, Olang Pass, NE Iran (left) & I. hyrcana, Lerik, Talysh, Azerbaijan


I. rosenbachiana Harangon & Tovilj-Dara, Tajikistan


I. rosenbachiana Harangon & Tovilj-Dara, Tajikistan



I. rosenbachiana Harangon, Tajikistan


I. rosenbachiana Varzob (right) & Harangon (left), Tajikistan

[Maggi Young]

Thanks to Dima for these  photos!



I. rosenbachiana Varzob, Tajikistan


I. zagrica, Zagros Range, Iran



I. reticulata, Delaman, Iran


I. reticulata, Delaman, Iran

[hamparstum]

Thank you Maggie for uploading these photos!. My eyes are overwhelmed with so many little treasures! I only hope one day to grow these since most come from regions quite similar to mine. a lot of work ahead, starting with accessing seeds. We all hope that the pandemic will become harnessed and normal procedures can be re-instated. Meanwhile these beautiful photos are a balm.
Arturo