Juno (Scorpiris) - Season 2010

[arillady]

Taken late this afternoon before the rain.
Iris vicaria ex ABW
A close up
Iris bucharica

[arillady]

The juno and aril patch showing  what is labelled as Iris vicaria on the right and the supposed Iris leptophylla on the left - look the same to me.
Then a closeup of vicaria(?)
And then the misnamed juno  
Are they both magnifica?
Names please?

[TheOnionMan]

The juno and aril patch showing  what is labelled as Iris vicaria on the right and the supposed Iris leptophylla on the left - look the same to me.
Then a closeup of vicaria(?)
And then the misnamed juno  
Are they both magnifica?
Names please?

Both yellow and white ones look like Iris bucharica to me; I'm uploading two pics of what I grew as I. vicaria.

[arillady]

Thanks Mark - it looks like I have some mislabelled junos. Your clumps are absolutely amazing.

[TheOnionMan]

Thanks Mark - it looks like I have some mislabelled junos. Your clumps are absolutely amazing.

Thanks. Earlier in this thread, I wrote that in spring 2009 deer came in and ate all my Juno Iris to mere stubs, the huge clumps of I. vicaria included, then with rain water getting into the severed leaf bases the plants rotted off, with hardly anything showing up in 2010. 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4764.msg149163#msg149163
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4764.msg149488#msg149488

[arillady]

Now that you mention it I do remember that earlier post. Wildlife can certainly do damage.

[BULBISSIME]

Pat, on pic 1465, are you trying to cross onco with juno ??   

Very very nice and so big patches...
You're really lucky to have such a climate !
But I also can imagine how hard you should have to work to keep them healthy.

Congratulations !

[PeterT]

Pat, post a picture of your Juno in side on, There are many forms of vicaria, The ones I know all have spindly flowers - quite distinct when fully open, Magnifica has much broader falls which dont crease down the centre the way vicaria does. Vicarias falls have a waist or 'pinched apearance unlike magnifica, and magnifica has broad style arms, but vicarias are wispy. see earlier posts -there are pictures. anyway a lot of that seed turned into magnifica (and some into x graeberiana) for me too.

[PeterT]

The styles look like magnifica Pat, see if the falls pinch.

[arillady]

Peter I hope these photos show what you need. The falls are definitely 'pinched'

[PeterT]

Hi Pat, your posts 252 and 255 are correct so you can compare,  these look intermediate in the pictures, I think they will turn out to be magnifica though, pinched falls indicate vicaria but the flowers look too chunky  I'll try to check the details of the stands etc but you can see the narrow hafts on your vicaria from Annes seed (ABW) in your earlier post.



post 252   =http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4764.msg165499#msg165499

post 255=

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4764.msg166035#msg166035

[arillady]

the clump of not Iris leptophyllum now
and a not very good photo of the left side of the clump
It is a very mixed clump
The last photo is where I grow the Iris vicaria and a few other junos in the middle of this patch

[arillady]

Iris bucharica ex PF8223 Paul's Yellow ex ABW - I find yellows hard to photograph

[PeterT]

I like the Paul Furse bucharica Pat

[Otto Fauser]

Pat , wonderful news ,to know that one of Paul Furse's I. bucharica is still in cultivation . Please keep it alive ! I used to grow many of Paul's bulb indroductions , he was very generous in sending me me lots of seeds in the 1960 's from his expeditions to Turkey, Iran , Afghanistan. Also had the joy of staying with Paul and Polly at 'Hegghill' twice and seeing some of their introductions growing there.

  2 late Junos flowering here in the last few days.