Reticulate Iris 2010

[Casalima]

I think I'll join you, David!

Janis, these are all so wonderful!!

[TheOnionMan]

I'm having more palpitations

David, there are medications for palpitations.  I hereby dub a new name for this type of floral eye-candy... "florno".  We're being explosed to florno and becoming irrevocably addicted whether we realize it or not   Iris kurdica appears so thin and seductive, certainly an Iris of the night.

[Ragged Robin]

Last for today - described by me I. reticulata subsp. kurdica
Janis

Sensational 

[Janis Ruksans]

Here so named winogradowii alba - really hybrid, may be with some winogradowii blood in it.
Few more of Alan McMurtries hybrids grown by me - there are some mix in one stock (more yellow)
Janis

[udo]

the Reticulata-saison is over by me,
here my last: Iris histrioides from Soganli Gec in NE-Turkey
some weeks after I.histrioides`Major`

[Hristo]

A nice end to the season though Dirk!!

[Janis Ruksans]

the Reticulata-saison is over by me,
here my last: Iris histrioides from Soganli Gec in NE-Turkey
some weeks after I.histrioides`Major`

Excellent plant Dirk. We searched for histrioides during LST (Latvian-Swedish-Turkey expedition) trip, but didn't succeed.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

This morning finally open garden beds became almost free from snow (see entry Crocuses in garden). And the first few Alan McMurtries hybrids grown outside started to flower. Not easy to walk between beds as undersoil still frosen and defrosted part very damp, so pictutred the nearest plants - cv. Blue Ice. As you can see, passes still full with snow. But bulbs are not eaten by rodents during winter!!!  
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

It amazing how quickly they come into flower as the snow recedes and the sudden colour against the earth is so exciting - they look wonderful Janis and It's great news to hear the rodents are at bay 

[Janis Ruksans]

Today much more of Alan hybrids bloom in garden and I'm really surprised how far better they looks outside than in greenhouse. Pity, but it is safer in greenhouse, but when only my stocks allow I plant part of bulbs on open beds.
But this time two nice Iris reticulata - one from Armenia - typical color of that named as var, caucasivca. Thanks, Zhirair, for that.
The next is smallest in size but most bright in color Iris reticulata KMZ-9505 - I think from Iran, Hamadan, Kuh-e-Alvand.
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

Exquisite colours, though both so very different, and the markings on the tiny Iris reticulata KMZ-9505 in your photo are beautiful Janis.

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more irises.
Iris kolpakowskiana from Alma-Ata with yellow blotch on ridge (no other types in this part found) - two color variants
Iris kolpakowskiana from surroundings of Tashkent with white blotch on ridge (no other types in this part found)
Iris kolpakowskiana grown from Jilek Seeds and reported that seeds collected in China, but Iris kolpakowskiana don't grow in China and isn't listed in Flora of China. Really many seeds offered by Jan Jilek are of wrongly named localities and seem that most are from cultivated plants.
The last is another stock of Iris reticulata subsp. kurdica.
Janis

[art600]

Janis

Really like your kolpakowskiana, with a slight preference for the white blotch on ridge.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Janis

Really like your kolpakowskiana, with a slight preference for the white blotch on ridge.

I agree Art - they're lovely !

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more hybrids from Alan McMurtrie - two purple with violet-metallic shine
white hybrid 'Avalanche'
and two reticulatas from wild - lilac from Turkey (standarts not fully developed, think it is seasonal)
and very beautiful very light sky blue of Iris reticulata from Armenia, found by Zhirair
Janis