Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009

[akoen]

Wine master
Supreme Sultan
Going my way
And a unknown

[Arykana]

Those Supreme Sultans are fabulous, I have a branch of them

I am lucky enough to have a collector close to my town, he have 900 different irises. If you are interesting, I put up a slide from his garden

This is my new "acquisition" and this

[Maggi Young]

You will find many Iris lovers here, Erika....... this is one of the most popular areas of the forum.

It is amazing to think of a collection of 900 irises..... how beautiful !

[Arykana]

Thanks Maggi! I love them all and have some nice! I visited this collector several times and have got
a whole sack of rhizome
many of them will be surprize, because it was after the blooming season
http://www.slide.com/r/AHpEVNmilT9fPQLx0XMphRxJSWvMFSki?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original
http://www.slide.com/r/lk4YWcpA5T-0srWioW8a3yAfpDM6PY3z?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original
my big foult, I forget all the names!

[Joakim B]

Very nice Iris garden so thanks for the pictures.
Is it close to Budapest?
Is some of the sorts re-blooming? I have not seen re-blooming sorts in Hungary so are not sure if they have the chance to re-bloom or the heat make them go dormant before.

All the best and thanks for the lovely pictures
Kind regards
Joakim

[Arykana]

No, I never saw re blooming here, the summer is very hot usually and we have rain today after 75 days! so I think it is not inspired them.
This garden is 150 km Southwest from Budapest and only 6 km from me

[viovaslui]

my iris.
http://mimiana.sunphoto.ro/01_irisi_2009

[viovaslui]

2 companies know where i can buy irisi.i wonder if you know others?

http://www.iris-cayeux.com/index.php?langue=EN&devise=eur&lg=FR
http://www.iris-en-provence.com/

[Paul T]

You will find many Iris lovers here, Erika....... this is one of the most popular areas of the forum.

It is amazing to think of a collection of 900 irises..... how beautiful !

Maggi,

I used to have between 400 and 500 different bearded iris.  I even used to rent a back yard to grow them in because I couldn't fit them at my place.  When the Iris Virus strikes a person it can be a very strong affliction.

Viovaslui,

There are a few decent sized iris nurseries in Australia as well, although I doubt they would be of interest to you.  Most of them breed and release their own irises as well, including one of them that specialises in the Louisianna irises.  I can provide website links if anyone is interested?

[Joakim B]

Erika thanks for the information about the garden.
We have relatives in Hungary and often visit Hungary first we went to Balaton but now it is Zalaegerszeg that is the goal.

Is this garden between Zala and Budapest? Zala is a bit south west I think but mostly west.
I have seen a iris website in Hungarian with very nice prices but have not dared to buy from them.

I would have expected that the warm summers would be good for the bearded irises but I have not seen irises in bloom in August when we were there at that time so I wonder what they need to re-bloom (apart from being re-bloomers).
Anyone knows?
I have not seen them re-bloom in Portugal either but here are not s many iris cultivars that are supposed to re-bloom. I see much more iris types in Hungary than in Portugal but here they have a lot of The blue dark iris and the white and the blue have a very free blooming from November into June but mostly sometime in the middle.
I have transported some iris from Hungary to Portugal some of them via Sweden. A "typical Hungarian to me is the I. palida variata with the cream and green foliage. Not at all common in Sweden or Portugal but thriving there. At least this is common in Zala and Around Balaton. Great to have more Hungarians here.
All the best
Joakim

[Arykana]

Ó, so you visit Hungary?? let me know next time!! This garden is in Tolna county, neat Szekszárd /the town I live/
You can buy irises only a trustworthy place - this one is very good for it - only 200-250 /less then an Euro/ forints one bush size like this:
best time to visit is middle of May

[Joakim B]

I have bought at the market by old people in the autumn when they split the plants they are always very good value. Mostly the odertypes but I also bougt some at a nusery at Keshely (spelling is probably wrong)  at the west side of Balaton. Here I got some newer types as well.
I looked at a website
http://www.iriszkert.hu/ but it seems not to work. I was very tempted to buy there but never did. We now visit Hungary at the grape harvesting every year.
My parents go twice a year.

All the best
Joakim

[fermi de Sousa]

Some of the DBI in the garden:
"Knick Knack"


"Raspberry Jam"


"Making Eyes" looks enormous next to these miniaturized Tulipa "Negrita"!


This is a species iris from Turkey grown from AGS Seedex 2007 seed


Iris suavolens


cheers
fermi

[Arykana]

I just cannot wait for the spring, will inundate you with pictures

[mark smyth]

Fermi your Knick Knack is quite different from the one grown over here. This might have been discussed before