Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009

[Ragged Robin]

Lovely photos of your iris, Lesley, Ruby Contrast has the most wonderful lavender blue beard 

[Joakim B]

Nice to see these as I just bought some iris (rhizomes type) in a bulb stand and he said they will be big but they look more like medium sized and they tend to be easy growers that multiply well. I will see if I got 5 different colours as I bought or only 1. Hopefully next year will tell. No re-bloomers not even named just colours
Love the many dwarfs from the south, might invest in a few when chances are given.

All the best
Joakim

[Lesley Cox]

Here is another of 'Ruby Contrast' which perhaps shows the shape of the flower better. As you see, it's raining here today. The second is 'Forte' a lovely smooth and tailored red.

[Lesley Cox]

And three more are

Tingle


Little Pearl


Watercolour

[Lesley Cox]

It has become obvious that I'll need to spray them with a systemic fungicide. They are getting the typical spotting on the leaves that all bearded irises seem to get. It is unsightly and unhealthy. The continuous rain isn't helping.

[Arykana]

so, Leslie you still have those beautifully irises
I have found some, only for nostalgia

[Lesley Cox]

Erika, yours are lovely. It's nice to go back to a previous season and enjoy the plants over again. Last summer I bought a lot of new bearded varieties, many replacements for some I'd lost, through moving house or being overgrown usually. Now they are beginning to bloom so it's quite exciting. I've not had so many for a very long time. The tall forms are not started yet but for now, there are lots of little ones to enjoy. If only the weather would warm up and be sunny for a few days.

[Arykana]

I have various number of small one too - according to the soil /hardy lyme and clay/and weather /dry!and hot/ conditions  - I have got them at this summer, so have to wait to see them
Just started to collect daylilies too

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

Anyone tell me the name of this Dwarf Bearded?  I'll know it when I hear it.  Cherry Child springs to mind, but I think that it was more reddish than this one?  This is the most beautiful dark purple with darker eye.

Thanks for any info.

Please click on the pics for a larger version.

[fermi de Sousa]

Sorry, Paul, can't help with the ID on that one but I don't think it's "Cherry Child" which is redder as you said.

Our little Aril-med, "Orb" is in flower again,


As is the TBI "Silk Sari" (how could I not get this one!)


cheers
fermi

[arilnut]

Paul, might be Cherry Garden.

John

[Paul T]

John,

Not one I have ever bought.  This SHOULD be named, and I should recognise the name.  I've never heard or seen Cherry Garden as far as I know.  That said, thanks for providing a name.  There's no way any of YOU are going to know which ones I have bought over time.    It just helps narrow it down. 

[Lesley Cox]

Cherry Garden is a rich crimson, no purple in the colour at all. Very sumptuous.

[Lesley Cox]

And still they come and more and more.....

Carats


Footlights


Sparky


Cinnamon Apples


Busy Bee


Lemon Puff


Desert Orange


This last has lovely colour but the foliage is very poor with bad fungal spotting, almost lesions. The flower texture too is not good, thin and vulnerable to weather. Someone should be using the colour and breeding for a stronger, healthier plant.

[angie]

Lesley lovely pictures, cant get to many images. Love Cinnamon Apples

Angie