Juno (Scorpiris) - Season 2010

[Luc Gilgemyn]

All looking very good Janis !
Thanks for showing ! 

[Otto Fauser]

Janis , thank you so much for sharing with us all those gorgeous Junos , in particular seeing for the first time I. aff. nusairiensis , bucharica Tony Hall , and the svetlaneae hyb.
     Otto.

[Janis Ruksans]

The first is compact seedling of Iris vicaria with very large flowers and of deeper shade than usual vicarias. Marked by me as "ex-ex-ex"
Next is Iris caucasica from Mchet near Tbilisi, Georgia, where I'm going tomorrow. Really flower isn't so white, the real shade is slightly greenish-yellowish
The last two are two hybrids raised by Alan McMurtrie. He crossed not only reticulatas, but some Juno irises, too.
Janis

[TheOnionMan]

So many beautiful Juno Iris.  Janis, the selection of I. vicaria are interesting, one of my favorite species. My huge cabbage-patch of Juno Iris, including a very large +100 stem clump of I. vicaria, were all nearly wiped out last year when deer came in and feasted on them, and the severed plants rotted.  Deer are rare in my yard, but when they do come in, they have an uncanny ability to zero in on the most precious plants.  This year almost none of them came back, so I offer up these photos of ghost Junos-of-the-past.

[PeterT]

I have heard venison is good to eat, personally I like wearing leather too at times like this!

[arillady]

Mark what a loss - just when you might be thinking that they were doing so well. You never know when disaster might strike and you lose something that you thought was doing well. Seems that you can never be complacent with plants.

[udo]

my last Juno for this spring,
a dwarf form from Juno orchioides

[Anthony Darby]

Sometime over Christmas I moved a pot of Iris 'Blue Warlsind' out of the greenhouse onto the path outside. here is has sat ever since. Here it is today.

[PeterT]

" if you love your plants -put them out"

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It seems to have liked the "outing" Anthony ! 
... and even the pot survived the heavy frosts .. 

[Anthony Darby]

It seems to have liked the "outing" Anthony ! 
... and even the pot survived the heavy frosts .. 

I think the free draining nature of the planting medium prevented excess moisture in the terracotta so the pot survived.

[PeterT]

Janis I like the I caucasica from Mchet - will you have any available?
Two junos in flower today in the ground at my sisters (higher altitude) I magnifica seedlings and I orchioides urungatschsai, Just waiting for aitchesonii if it flowers, it usually makes me think it wont then it does, and cycloglossa and that will be all my junos for this year  

[Janis Ruksans]

Alan McMurtrie in early years made some crosses with Juno irises, too. Some are very beautiful but this one I like more than all others. It is tall as magnifica, extremely floriferous and of excellent color.
Janis

[arillady]

I just been asked for contact details for Jan Jelik in Czechoslovakia. As I have not dealt with him does anyone have his contact details?

[Maggi Young]

Pat, I do not know contact details for this person. I would draw your  attention to this page from ther old SRGC Forum: http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/149/3760.html    

There was considerable concern there for the fact that much of the merchandise was wild collected.
Caution advised, I think.