Hello all. Some on this forum already know me but I might as well introduce myself to all.
I am John Baumfalk and I live in southcentral Kansas USA zone 6(?). I am in the Species Preservation
group of the Aril Society International. Pat T., Rafa, Hans A., Jamie V., and Panayoti already know of me.
I have been growing Aril species for 5 or 6 years now and have been really ramping up my collection
the last 3 years. I also have side interests in many other bulbous and herbaceous flowers. I
like to grow the rare and unusual plants. Especially if they are a challenge, and beautiful. I use
the forced germination method on the Aril iris seed and it works very well. I'll put the list of
my Aril species in this post and later a list of other things I grow.
Regards
John
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Including seedlings and orders still to come in I now have the following.
Acutiloba-2 clones, atrofusca-2 clones, atropurpurea-2 clones, barnumae-4 clones, elegantissima-6 clones, gatesii-2 clones, kirkwoodii-3 clones,
kirkwoodii ssp. calcarea- 4 clones, lycotis- 3 clones, mariae- 2 clones, meda-1 clone, nectarifera-1 clone, nigricans-1 clone, paradoxa f. atrata-1 clone,
paradoxa f. choschab-2 clones, paradoxa f. paradoxa- 7 clones, petrana- 6 clones, sari-2 clones, sari f. manissadjanii- 1 clone,
sofarana ssp. kasruwana-2 clones, sprengeri- 1 clone, urmiensis- 4 clones, westii-1 clone.
Then in Regelias I have these.
Hoogiana, hoogiana Alba, hoogiana Late Amethyst, hoogiana Blue Mount, hoogiana Deep Purple, hoogiana Purple Dawn, korolkowii,
korolkowii Violacea, stolonifera, stolonifera White Flag, and 1 korolkowii seedling from Archibald seed.
I also have the psammiris mandschurica.
Here is the list of seedlings from this year
atrofusca - 2 And from last years germination
atropurpurea - 1 barnumae - 1 This had some increase when moved
barnumae - 2 elegantissima - 1 this was showing good increase when I moved it in early July
choschab - 2 paradoxa - 4
elegantissima - 1 sofarana kasruwana - 2 one had increase and both look good.
kirkwoodii - 3
kirkwoodii calcarea - 4
lycotis - 1
mariae - 1
meda - 1
paradoxa - 2
petrana - 8
sari - 1
urmiensis - 4
Mayr Iran sp. - 3
Pilous's onco sp. - 3
acutiloba lineolata X choschab - 4
Dardanus X choschab - 1
I.scariosa - 5 ,