Hermodactylus tuberosus

[Alessandro.marinello]

Now in flower, light perfumed

[David Nicholson]

So is mine Alessandro but it is the first year of flowering and the one flower I have is quite small.

[Maggi Young]

A very beautiful form, Alessandro The wide heart-shaped falls are gorgeous.

[Alessandro.marinello]

So is mine Alessandro but it is the first year of flowering and the one flower I have is quite small.

sure the next year you will have two big flowers

[Alessandro.marinello]

A very beautiful form, Alessandro The wide heart-shaped falls are gorgeous.

Thanks Maggi

[Gerry Webster]

Hermodactylus tuberosus

A huge clump flowering at Highdown Gardens, W. Sussex a few days ago.
This is the famous chalk garden created by Sir Frederick Stern & now lovingly cared for by Worthing District Council to whom he bequeathed it. 
Stern was a banker but one who was a good deal more public spirited than many of the current collection of greedy spivs.

[David Nicholson]

Is Highdown fully open to the public please Gerry, and would you recommend a visit?

[Maggi Young]

How grand to see it growing outside in such a natural looking setting...... it would never do that up here  
It seems over the last couple of days that Scotland is no longer the comfortable refuge for greedy banking peers that it once was   perhaps that means the "climate" will change for the gardeners  and I will be able to have swathes of widow iris outdoors?? !!

[Gerry Webster]

Is Highdown fully open to the public please Gerry, and would you recommend a visit?

David - yes it is open to the public every day & free too. At this time of year it closes at 4.30pm. I would certainly recommend a visit; it's a wonderful garden though, for my taste, it's at its best in Spring. We made our regular Spring visit last weekend when it appeared not quite as advanced as usual. With the idea of posting on 'Places To Visit'  I took a few photos but they are not terribly good because of the wind. I'll have another look at them & if I think any are tolerable I'll post them.

[Tony Willis]

Lovely pictures of a smashing plant.I have seen it in the wild in large numbers but have never succeeded in growing it

[Paul T]

Virtually can't kill it here!! (famous last words of course, mine will now promptly turn up their toes after many many years of success. )

[Miriam]

Beautiful!!
Isn't it called now Iris?

[Rafa]

you are rigth Miriam, ideed it gives it's name to the section Hermodactyloides that include all reticulatas.

[Lesley Cox]

Can't kill it here either but as for getting it to flower, that's quite another thing. 

[Otto Fauser]

Did not see it in flower in Mid-march 1961 , when Sir Frederick and Lady Stern invited me for lunch at 'Highdown', but was thrilled to find a clump of Iris winogradowii in flower in the garden - the first time I saw this species .
  Lady Stern collected me at the station , i think it was Goring by the Sea , in her Rolls -Royce , and lunch was served by a butler - not your daily routine in Australia - but it was enjoyable ,as was the tour around the garden, nice memories .