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mark smyth

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Iris early summer 2007
« on: April 07, 2007, 11:19:59 PM »
The last Iris page is 14 pages so I'll start a new one for this coming season.

I spotted this in the green house today. I dont go in much these days except to water.
Iris suaveolens - two views

Possibly open tomorrow will be Iris taurica 26 days earlier than last year. It was open on May 2nd in 2006. I suppose being in the greenhouse did this but also covered in buds is I. attica, in the garde, that will also be 4 weeks early if the flowers open next week. Is anyone else finding the same for plants in the garden?

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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2007, 11:40:03 PM »
Absolutely super pix, Mark! Really shows the texture of the flowers and the fab hairy bits!
Wonderful mirroring of the colour of the anther and the beard.
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mark smyth

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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2007, 10:35:13 AM »
very observant of you.

I looked for this Iris using the search do da and it didnt come up. I wouldnt have posted the same plant that someone else has shown elsewhere. Oh well..
« Last Edit: April 08, 2007, 10:37:34 AM by mark smyth »
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2007, 12:05:43 PM »
Wonderfully clear pics Mark.  Great Stuff!!  So much detail.
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2007, 07:26:14 PM »
I bought an Iris suaveolens yesterday from Pounsley Plants http://www.pounsleyplants.com/  flowering had finished and I'm not sure whether to pot it and bring it into the greenhouse next Winter to flower or to plant it out in the garden? Any advice please?

Pounsley Plants took some finding even for a resident of these parts but was well worth looking for. Only small, but a lovely selection of stuff and the owner, Jane Hollow, is really helpful and nice to talk to. I had gone to buy Iris reichenbachii but she had lost her stock last winter. I now find that small growing Iris of any species are yet another obsession! ::)
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2007, 10:37:13 PM »
One I forgot to share is Iris taurica bought in the Czech Republic. From one flowering nose to three this year
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2007, 04:43:13 PM »
Does anyone know the name of this dwarf Iris. It is about 6" in height and clumps profusely.
I bought it at an SRGC  show about 10 years ago from the members plant sale and it was unnamed
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2007, 07:24:08 PM »
Tom, it looks like a beardless Pacific Coast hybrid, possibly a Broadleigh hybrid. Broadleigh Ann?
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2007, 07:59:20 PM »
One from the garden today-Iris sibirica 'Perry's Blue'

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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2007, 04:10:43 PM »
Some Iris, but not mine. I only know I. elegantissima
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2007, 04:58:44 PM »
Blue is the right word David !!

Hans, what a lot of diversity in the flowers : beautiful

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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2007, 07:12:38 PM »
very nice especially the stripey I. sprengeri
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2007, 10:59:06 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on May 23, 2007, 07:12:38 PM
very nice especially the stripey I. sprengeri
Do you mean the first one?  Isn't it I acutiloba lineolata??
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2007, 05:36:49 PM »
Hello,

Very beautiful Iris, specially to me, the Oncos.
Johannes, are I. elegantissima and I. lineolata from Josef Mayr?

Here an Iris paradoxa
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Re: Iris early summer 2007
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2007, 06:27:19 PM »
Iris Darbanus (korolkovi X iberica) just before the wind broke the flowering stems :(
Grown outside with no special treatment.
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