Reticulate Iris 2010

[WimB]

Just found this website today,
you probably know it already but there are some mouth watering hybrids on there:

http://www.reticulatas.com/

some of them are sold by Janis.

[David Nicholson]

Iris reticulata 'Kuh-e-Abr'

[daveyp1970]

David that is a cracker can i ask do you allow your retics that are in pots to dry out in the summer?

[David Nicholson]

Yes I do Dave but last year I dried them out too quickly and I think this caused me to have very small bulbs when I re-potted last July. I grow all my potted retics in one of those plastic covered three tier mini greenhouses all the garden centres stock. Cost me about £15 originally and I'm now on my third one. After a while the plastic side structures give way because of the weight of the pots.

[Armin]

David,
very lovely. Nice broad honeymark.

[Hristo]

Iris histrioides var. sophenensis in full swing now and flowering for the first time since the vole attack of 2008, what I think is Iris x 'Vivacious Beginnings', please say if you have a different ID!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I love Kuh-e-abr David !   
Mine are a few dayx away from their first flowering ! 

Wonderful sight Chris, is the second one an Alan Mc Murtrie cross ??

[David Nicholson]

A typo there Chris It is "sophenensis", and it looks good too. Nice hybrid as well.

Luc, Kuh-e-Abr is one of my favourites.

[Hristo]

Hi Luc and thanks, yes it's one of Alan's hybrids, had it for a while now but it has suffered two setbacks in its life! Maybe it can move towards bulking up now!!!
David, thanks for the correction, the brain moves on before the fingers have finished!! I'm waiting on my 'Cool, it's Abba', your photo reminds me of just how clear the blue is in this one!

[David Nicholson]

 

[Gail]

Thanks Gail,
I have no information if there occure white ones in nature, but as they vary in colour it might be possible. The only picture I know of this species which seems to be taken in its habitat is in 'Bulbous Plants of Turkey & Iran' of Peter Sheasby -  it  shows one flower and a bit of soil in the background. All the other pictures i have seen are of cultivated plants, mainly of other forumists as Janis Ruksans, John Lonsdale, Bulbissime or Biodiversite. Maybe Janis will know it.

I was just re-reading Alan McMurtrie's article on reticulatas in the March 2003 AGS Bulletin. He mentions a white form of I. pamphylica which appeared in plants grown by John Amand.

[Hans A.]

Thanks for the information Gail, so maybe one day will appear one here.

[art600]

Some irises in the bulb house now:

Firstly, a pot of Iranian Iris reticulata - long wait to see them flowering, but I think it was worth it.

Secondly, a kind friend gave me a bag of small bulbs and this is the first to flower - do not think it is one of the well known garden named forms.

Thirdly, can someone supply a name please.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I like 'em all Art, but the last one is quite a special colour !

[David Nicholson]

Is the last one pretty true to colour Arthur?