Juno (Scorpiris) - Season 2010

[PeterT]

sorry, I thought I had named them. They are hypolitii, ? caucasica, ?orchioides seedling, and an orchioides i think, there seem to be a great many varients of these small, usually yellow, junos.

[Janis Ruksans]

sorry, I thought I had named them. They are hypolitii, ? caucasica, ?orchioides seedling, and an orchioides i think, there seem to be a great many varients of these small, usually yellow, junos.

The picture is not very clear, but I suppose that second could be I svetlaneae.
Janis

[PeterT]

Thanks Janis,
 it has a crest, I shall try to post some better pictures but I am at work while the light is good.
at least I am managing to resize the pictures now. Here is a picture of another I svetlanae

[PeterT]

I svetlanae

[Janis Ruksans]

I svetlanae

In attachment 4 different aquisitions of I. svetlaneae. Shing - pictured in wild, Tadjikistan, others Uzbekistan origin.
Janis

[arilnut]

Here is my I.svetlanae from March 28

John B

[Janis Ruksans]

Iris kuschakewiczii started today.
Janis

[arillady]

What a stunning juno Janis. Must keep that one in mind.
Pat

[BULBISSIME]

Superb Janis !
I'm still waiting for a flower from mine.. since some years !

[David Nicholson]

Owing to family illness I'm not getting much time in the garden or the greenhouse at the moment and both my Iris bucharica and I. graeberiana are now way past their best (and I missed the best of them). One that is in good from at the moment is I. 'Blue Mystery' from Susan Band's (Pitcairn Alpines) List. Pics taken in a great hurry.

 

[Hristo]

Pat, David, super looking plants.
Pat, is yours in the open garden?
Like the 'Blue Mystery' David looks
similar to 'Skyline' and 'Evening Shade'

[Janis Ruksans]

Pat, David, super looking plants.
Pat, is yours in the open garden?
Like the 'Blue Mystery' David looks
similar to 'Skyline' and 'Evening Shade'

All three are very similar and I can separate them only seeing side by side. If I would be breeder - I would keep only one, but they are raised by Lithuanian grower (Augis or Leonid, or both, not remember who). Really Juno hybrids from same parents are very similar one to other in F-1 generation and as they usually are sterile, no F-2 possible.
Janis

[arillady]

Chris I think you were meaning John B rather than myself in your reply.

[udo]

a cool sunday with rain,
in flower under protection:
Juno nusariensis from Syria
and Juno svetlanae

[Hristo]

Cheers Pat, one of those snr episodes - again! Congrats John!

Janis, flowered 'Shocking Blue' from Leonid this year and again it is very much like 'Skyline' and others.
They perform well in the open garden and fill a flowering gap between the reticulata types and the oncos.
So far 'Skyline' has been the best for vegetative increase.