Reticulate Iris 2010

[PeterT]

Thanks David, Armin,
Dirk I like your hyrcana, I grow talish form which is much larger and I bought from Janis Ruksans some years ago, it is a good doer -often flowers before christmas, also a conventional small dark clone I bought from Mike smith seven or eight years ago.John I think your larger Digt is George which is a cross Histroides majour x J S Digt (Van Eeden). According to my cribb sheet, Gordon and Edward are also Van Eeden, Edward = (I reticulata x Bakeriana) type and Gordon is cantab x bakeriana. cantab appeard among Iris reticulata cyanea in Bowles garden at Myddleton House, Enfield.
 I was at the east Lancs show today and there was a super pot of I winowgradowii, - never seen it crammed with flowers like that before. also a lovely dark purpley blue form of I reticulata.
 I came back via the frame on my sisters allottment, I danfordiae is in flower (triploid). took a picture, it has been flowering for 8 years now no feeding needed just 6 inches of gravel on top of it.

[Maggi Young]

Former SRGC President, Peter Semple, showed this pot of Iris winogradowii today at the SRGC Show in Dunblane

[udo]

Maggi, nice Iris winogradowii

here this species outside without leave and
Iris reticulata from Halkis Dagh in SE-Turkey
 ``      ``     ,a very small form from Kuh-e-Savalon in Iran

[LucS]

Former SRGC President, Peter Semple, showed this pot of Iris winogradowii today at the SRGC Show in Dunblane

Hard to beat this one 

[Maggi Young]

Former SRGC President, Peter Semple, showed this pot of Iris winogradowii today at the SRGC Show in Dunblane

Hard to beat this one 

It was very beautiful, Luc, though Peter himself admitted that it would look even better  if the bulbs were spread out more to allow the individual  charm of each flower to be better seen than in this rather overcrowded pot!

[cohan]

My Iris winogradowii with 6 flowers. Maybe its reaction after the long and cold winter ?
The secound picture from a few years ago shows the individual flower.

enjoying everything here, but this one needed a comment--really love that colour!

[mark smyth]

Mark, sharp photos from your retics.

Thanks Armin.

[vivienr]

I bought a pot of 'Joyce' a few weeks ago and there seems to be a cuckoo in the nest (picture is a bit bleached in the sunshine).

The Joyce seems to be identical to the Iris at the Garden House, Saxby, that was labelled as JS Dijt (Places to Visit thread).

[Hristo]

Dirk, great to see your Halkis doing so well in the open garden.
Vivien, from the colouration, narrowed falls and well developed leaves your cuckoo looks
like Iris reticuata hort., it pops up quite regularly as other cultivars /
with other cultivars etc etc. The Saxby Iris, as you say, looks like Harmony, far too light
in this photo to be J.S.Dijit and missing the distinctive orange mark on the fall.

[Janis Ruksans]

Thank you for that Maggi and i hope that it is just a regular feature.  I agree with you about plants in the shows too.

Maggi is right, the main features to recognise virus are darker stripes on flower and/or mosaic on green leaves latyer in season.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

I never showed these and they are now over due to high temperatures and wind

?Clairette
?Edward
?Spring Time
?William or is it Natasha?

At least CLAIRETTE is true, others I not remember so well, I grew them some 15-20 years ago.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

.... none! Within a couple of years all were dead.

NATASHA is the weekest grower from all reticulata cultivars.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

My 'Cantab' is flowering now - it is the same colour as 'Alida' but 'Alida' is more robust and has much wider petals.  Cantab has the better fragrance. Second picture shows Cantab left and Alida right, sorry about the poor focus, I should have checked the photos before I pulled the flowers apart to pollinate them!

Also flowering one labelled I. histrio subsp. aintabensis.  Flower is a 'Dulux white with a hint of grey' and small (8cm tall and 4.8cm across).  Opinions?

I. histrio  subsp. aintabensis not correct.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Maggi, nice Iris winogradowii

here this species outside without leave and
Iris reticulata from Halkis Dagh in SE-Turkey
 ``      ``     ,a very small form from Kuh-e-Savalon in Iran

The form from form from Kuh-e-Savalon in Iran is marvellous!
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

I bought a pot of 'Joyce' a few weeks ago and there seems to be a cuckoo in the nest (picture is a bit bleached in the sunshine).

The Joyce seems to be identical to the Iris at the Garden House, Saxby, that was labelled as JS Dijt (Places to Visit thread).
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On the first picture no one is JOYCE. Joyce has very rounded fall and yellow blotch, very similar to HARMONY, difference is in flower tube, but which - I don't remember more. Second - ?
Janis