Reticulate Iris 2009

[mark smyth]

Sorry I wasnt following this thread. My plant is in a trough facing south west and gets full sun every day - when it shines

[Tony Willis]

Although I unguicularis ssp cretica requires a hot dry position forms from other areas grow in quite different circumstances. In Sw Turkey it grow in masses in the mountains  on south facing  hillsides that are cold and wet in the spring with running water although much drier in the summer. In the SE of Turkey in the Hatay I have found it growing as a woodland plant in deep shade.

here is an Iris reticulata jjmz32 from Iran

[art600]

here is an Iris reticulata jjmz32 from Iran

This I think is the nearest match to the one with which I started this thread.  Very nice   

[Maggi Young]

here is an Iris reticulata jjmz32 from Iran

This I think is the nearest match to the one with which I started this thread.  Very nice   

It is very similar, isn't it?
To remind folks, here is one of Art's pix from the page 1 of this thread....

[Maggi Young]

In another of Art's pix the colour is more like Tony's plant.....

[Tony Willis]

Maggi is it not time to go to bed?

yes they are probably from the same place

[ashley]

Art and Tony, those are lovely plants.  Where in Iran was the seed  collected?

Only cultivars here I'm afraid:

'Katherine Hodgkin'
'JS Dijt' supposedly but I'm doubtful .  Can anyone identify it?
seedling of unknown parentage

[Lesley Cox]

I would suggest that the second of the (supposedly) J S Dijt is, in fact 'Harmony,' both from the colour and from the fact the leaves are quite short as it flowers. The pollen parent is I. histrioides 'Major,' so it has shorter leaves than straight reticulata. Is the 1st pic the same plant? Different colour but that could be the light at the angle of pic-taking.

If the 3rd is not 'Harmony' as well, I'd be thinking seedling of, but I think 'Harmony' may be sterile. Not sure.

[Lvandelft]

Ashley, I think it is Harmony too!
Here is Iris ret. J.S. Dijt:

[Tony Willis]

Ashley

I cannot say,I was given a few rice grain sized bulbs.

[ashley]

Many thanks Lesley and Luit.  Yes JS Dijt is far more reddish-purple than mine, and with a slightly different form.  Pictures 3 & 4 are of the same plant; apparent difference is due to light angle as you say Lesley.  The top view (pic 3) is close to the true colour, but it's quite distinct from that of the seedling (also fairly true colour; contrast Harmony in bottom right of picture).

What a beauty yours is Tony.

[David Nicholson]

Here are a couple of pics of Iris histrioides var. sophenensis, a pretty little thing that came from Dirk. The stem hasn't elongated much and as this was grown under the cover of my plastic frame I may have kept it a little too dry.
 

David,

i become a new information to this Iris.
It is a unusual form from Iris reticulata,
not a Iris histrioides var.sophenensis.

Thanks for the new information Dirk, I will re-label it. Still a very pretty form though.

[David Nicholson]

Here are a couple of mine from today in the greenhouse, iris histrioides 'Katharine Hodgkin' and Iris reticulata 'Harmony'.

[ashley]

Nice plants David, and I like your 'studio' setting for clear pictures without background distraction

If the colour of your 'Harmony' picture is true then it more-or-less matches my 'unknown seedling' (above) but certainly not the 'Not JS Dijt' which is a much deeper blue-purple (best shown in my pic 3).  So any other ideas about what this might be?

[Lvandelft]

Nice plants David, and I like your 'studio' setting for clear pictures without background distraction

If the colour of your 'Harmony' picture is true then it more-or-less matches my 'unknown seedling' (above) but certainly not the 'Not JS Dijt' which is a much deeper blue-purple (best shown in my pic 3).  So any other ideas about what this might be?

Ashley, I found two matching this colour, I showed in the Connoisseur Coll. in April last year:
Pixie or Jeannine, but Pixie is more likely.