Oncos 2009

[Boyed]

Rafa,

I don't accuratly reproduce onco's natural conditions, but something closer. I plant them in ordinary clay soil in very sunny location and they all do well. The only dangerous things that can cause harm and be a reason of fungal deaceses are weeds. So I am very careful and remove all weeds systematically.

Relating planting oncos in humus rich soil, you know I like to experiment and I learned a lot due to my experiments and tests. I am just very curious about to see what onco species can resist such kind of soils and how they will perform.

[Viola]

Iris sprengerii in my garden.

[Maggi Young]

Karl, fine photos of a fine plant, thanks!

[BULBISSIME]

Wonderfull plant and pics Karl !
Great to see this species, and thank's !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Karl,
your I. sprengeri is simply beautiful !
Do you really grow it in the garden unprotected ??

[Hans A.]

And thank you, your Iris kirkwoodii is flowering now in my garden 

Wow - I am surprised it came in flower! Looks you care it very well.

Karl your sprengerii is such a fine species and I am very glad you show it, thanks a lot - I am growing this species several years now but until now it did not bloom.

Zhirair Iris paradoxa may be the easiest of the armenian species - but as I had to recognice just today also this one can get get soft rot (even if I do not use any humus for Oncos ) - hope to be able to save it...

Actually an Iris sari is in flower here.

[BULBISSIME]

Gorgeous !!!

[Viola]

Thank everyone.

Hans and Luc
I care for her in my garden since 2001. She is from planted freely in very permeable substratum (pumice stone, quartz sand, loamy earth and a little gravel) protectedly in the box. From March by the end of May I keep her damp easily, I then cover her up to the next year in March. A water gift is not necessarily over 9 months since a little humidity always penetrates with us from the outside. The plant flourishes almost every year. Also I have some plants I got too wet as her lost years ago in the late fall.
This one plants grows in Kapadokien at Aksaray on big pumice stone stockpiles.

Karl

[Lesley Cox]

More wonderful oncos, no wonder they are a "holy grail" for iris lovers. Thank you everyone for your beautiful pictures.

[BULBISSIME]

Bio, the iris X Zizah you gave me last year is flowering now, with the same color and veins...
Strange color, not my favourite one because I really prefer species, but still nice !
By the way, I'm testing a new photographic system to improve depth of field with macro lenses on full frame camera, and it's not working too bad.
Here are the pictures, but the effect is more impressive on original large files.


Here is the standard pic at f13 :



and cropping :



And the new pic, also f13 :



and cropping :

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Fred !  Are you trying to demoralize us    

Stunning images 

[BULBISSIME]

Not at all Luc 
I just want to share with the SRGC community 

[Maggi Young]

Wow, Fred, great results.... I can appreciate the difference even at these smaller sized pix on my machine. I bet they'd look fantastic  projected on a big screen 

[Pauli]

Hello,

here a picture of my paradoxa, the only Onco that is really growing well!

If somebody wants to exchange Oncos, I should have 2 or 3 spares in June!

All the best from Austria!

Herbert

[Otto Fauser]

Fred !  Are you trying to demoralize us    

Stunning images 

Fred -certainly stunning images but "croping"  when I enlarged one the following appeared on my screen : report this as offensive adult content     
 
 Surely you wanted to say cropping ,
        Otto