Juno (Scorpiris) 2009

[Miriam]

Fred,
Beautiful photo of this gorgeous plant!

Can I ask you how your photos are large without clicking on the photo to bring up a larger version and how it can be done?


edit by M: Miriam, I have sent you a PM to advise you   

[BULBISSIME]

Myriam,

I use this server :  http://www.servimg.com/upload.php

Just copy and past  bbcode full size image.

Best
Fred

[Hans A.]

Fred, congratulation -  pic and plant are gorgeous!

[Hans A.]

Hope it is ok if I show another Iris persica - in my eyes a great form.

[David Nicholson]

In my eyes too Hans, it's a beauty.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hope it is ok if I show another Iris persica 

You have our permission to do so Hans... and many more ....    please...
We can never get enough of them ! 

[Oron Peri]

Thanks Hans
I think this flower is more then superb....it has a perfect form and color combination.

[BULBISSIME]

Hans,
what else ?
Picture and plant are 
This form is really very very nice !
All your Iris are in ground ?

[arillady]

What an exquisite photo and plant Hans. Lucky you. This forum gives us the opportunity, when we want to jump up and down with joy when some of our plant treasures flower, to share them with others who will appreciate them. When my first oncocyclus, grown from seed, came into flower in about 1991 I felt like I was alone in the desert. There was hardly anyone in Australia who was growing arilbreds let alone arils. BUT NOW there are likeminded people all over the world wth whom we can share our joy.
Pat

[Otto Fauser]

Yes please Hans, show us as many photos of Iris as possible, your photography is
superb and the plants in such good health and so rare .At first I thought it looked like
 I. galatica , as the colouring was very much like forms of that species I have seen,
but then I noticed that the outer bract was stiff ,erect and green, almost like a leaf,
so it has to be I. persica.
     Pat, despite 43-44C for the last 4 days [a record since they started keeping records
 in 1856] I have not wilted away yet , but some plants have gone to their heaven.
 Pat ,you were not the first one here in Australia to feel alone in a desert when your
first onco flowered in 1991. There was a Dr. Loveridge in Young ,N.S.W. ,who grew many rare Oncocyclus species in the sixties and I still remember the joy in seeing
 the first one in flower , I. iberica ssp. elegantissima , which flowered in 2 years ,
 from seed received from Tiflis Bot.Garden in 1965 , and since then I grew [and killed as many ] many other oncos from Syria Lebanon, Israel , Jordan , Turkey , Iran,
 a joyous and sad story.
      Otto.

[Hans A.]

Thanks to all, I am glad you like the pic (thanks to Maggi it is also very huge now ) - with such beautiful models it is quite easy to make good pictures
In the next weeks there will be a few more Junos (and later on Oncos) which should flower and for shure I will be pleased to share some more pics with you, but I hope many more members show some more Junos here.

@Fred - All Iris grow in the garden even if the conditions of the plantingsites vary a bit (soil, moisture, sun-shadow) - exceptions are new plants because of risk of infections/virus and small seedlings which I grow in pots (Oncos for about one-two year, Junos because of the slower growth and generally smaller size   2 or 3 (or more))

[Gerhard Raschun]

Hans , photo and plant of I. persica are superb !!!!! mine won`t flower this year 

here are some picts , taken last weekend.

Juno svetlanae, first open bud
Juno spec. ex Afghanistan, I believe it is J. bucharica
Juno  x willmottiana, virus infected, bought from P.C.

[ashley]

Other suppliers offer heavily virussed willmottiana too unfortunately

[Susan Band]

Hans,
It will be a while before any pictures from me I am afraid. Noses of Junos only just poking through the ground, now covered in snow
Even longer to see I. persica from here, a couple of seeds just germinating 
Good to see your pics as well Gerhard
Susan

[Gerhard Raschun]

@ashley

This isn`t a respectable behavior !  

There are healthy plants of J.  willmottiana in my collection too, but from a German dealer.

But this year plants won`t flower at the same time, pollination won`t be easy.