Reticulate Iris 2010

[Otto Fauser]

Bill , your I. ret. 'Pixie' is what I grow as 'Pixie' too.
       
           Otto.

[Lesley Cox]

It's a beauty Bill. I've not seen it down this way.
Here is 'Sheila Ann Germaney', same parentage as 'Katharine Hodgkin,' histrioides 'Major' x danfordiae.

[PeterT]

Hello Lesley,
 Sheila Anne germany is the best of these for me, it has a clear blue apearance rather than the muddy green hue of K Hodgekin and Frank Elder, but I believe their parentage is actually thought to be Iris winowgradowii x histroides Major and not danfordiae

It's a beauty Bill. I've not seen it down this way.
Here is 'Sheila Ann Germaney', same parentage as 'Katharine Hodgkin,' histrioides 'Major' x danfordiae.

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[Lesley Cox]

I think I've got myself muddled Peter. I thought E B Anderson (Dad to KH) said it was hist x wino but then it was shown to be hist x danford. However, could well be quite the other way around.

[Lesley Cox]

Some don't like KH and call her colouring "bilious" but I like it very much tho' I like SAG better.

[fermi de Sousa]

I think I've got myself muddled Peter. I thought E B Anderson (Dad to KH) said it was hist x wino but then it was shown to be hist x danford. However, could well be quite the other way around.

Exactly!
Here is Iris "Alida" which I got last year but it only produced 2/3 of a flower - much better this year.

IIRC this is a paler sport of "Harmony".
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

I should have paid more attention to the picture file name - hist major x winogradowii.

'Alida' is lovely. Another we don't have.

[fermi de Sousa]

I should have paid more attention to the picture file name - hist major x winogradowii.

'Alida' is lovely. Another we don't have.

You'll just have to wait till you get a similar sport from "Harmony"!
Poor "George" looked a bit frosty this morning:


cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

He may have been cold, but George does look great on this one Fermi ! 

[Lesley Cox]

How many degrees of frost was that Fermi? I didn't realize you got much frost at all.
I've never had a sport on any retic iris, unless you mean those things that look like clovers and nettles.

[PeterT]

I think I've got myself muddled Peter. I thought E B Anderson (Dad to KH) said it was hist x wino but then it was shown to be hist x danford. However, could well be quite the other way around.

I think it is, -all the hybreds I know of involving danfordiae have wispy stands or none at all

[fermi de Sousa]

How many degrees of frost was that Fermi? I didn't realize you got much frost at all.
I've never had a sport on any retic iris, unless you mean those things that look like clovers and nettles.

That was just a mild -2.2^oC according to the local weather station.
I have no idea what you mean by sports "like clovers and nettles"!
"Alida" is suppose to be a sport of "Harmony".
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

I know that, you pillock, it was a feeble attempt at a joke, as in all that's coming up around my retics are nettles, clovers and other such weeds, with the very damp weather we're having.

[fermi de Sousa]

"Pixie" has just opened in our rock garden!




And "Alida" is making more of a show


And after a break of a couple of years, Iris histrio ssp aintabensis MT4501 has decided to flower again!


cheers
fermi

[Ragged Robin]

And after a break of a couple of years, Iris histrio ssp aintabensis MT4501 has decided to flower again!

Well worth waiting for such a lovely Retic, Fermi, why didn't it flower last year do you think?