Bearded Iris 2010

[Regelian]

here are two intermediates, 'Amelia Bedelia', which I thought I had lost over the years, plus 'Fritillary Flight', which I find particularly attractive in the garden.  Subtle, not too gaudy, well branched.

[fermi de Sousa]

This DBI put up a flower now but I don't remember it flowering earlier in the season.


I wonder if it is the one called "Wanganui Gem" bred by Jean Stevens in NZ in the 1930s? I've just been sent a piece of it but think it maybe one I've already had froma couple of sources.
cheers
fermi

[Hristo]

Nice plants Jamie and Fermi,
Flowering here now one of the seldom seen parents of many of the cultivated bearded hybrids, Iris variegata.

[David Nicholson]

A couple of recent acquisitions:-

Iris 'Paltec'. This is one I hadn't come across before, the label tells me that it is a cross between I. pallida and I. tectorum.
I. 'Raspberry Blush'

[PeterT]

A couple of recent acquisitions:-

Iris 'Paltec'. This is one I hadn't come across before, the label tells me that it is a cross between I. pallida and I. tectorum.
I. 'Raspberry Blush'

Glad to see someone else with paltec David, one of the few hybreds I hope to try recreating it one day, but with pallida ALBA x tectorum ALBA  to try for a less grey coulor. I think the cross was achieved the other way round too but no longer exists.  Here is a seedling of Iris junoniana flowering for the first time

[arillady]

Some really desirable irises shown lately. Any would be welcome in my garden.
Thanks for posting everyone.

[arilnut]

Hi David and Peter. Sorry to tell you but that is not Paltec. I have had it for many years.
Here is a photo from Iris City Gardens site. It has a crest with some beard hairs, very small.
Thomas Silvers has been crossing Bearded and Tectorum for several years and registered
"Flying Dragon" in 2004. It is larger than Paltec.

John B

[PeterT]

Hi David and Peter. Sorry to tell you but that is not Paltec. I have had it for many years.
Here is a photo from Iris City Gardens site. It has a crest with some beard hairs, very small.
Thomas Silvers has been crossing Bearded and Tectorum for several years and registered
"Flying Dragon" in 2004. It is larger than Paltec.

John B

I should very much like to see Flying Drgon, I shall contact them. I am not sure If Davids plant is Paltec, I had not looked closely and the beard looks rather strong but my memory is hazy, the flower can vary according to conditions and age though, perhaps David could post a more mature picture? I shall post one If I catch it in bloom.

[daveyp1970]

is it possible that the plant david has got the pallida parent prevailed,i'm sure the crossing of tectorum to pallida would produce quite a lot of variation.

[PeterT]

I think you would be right but that Paltec is a clone and I have found it stable, it looks like a bearded Iris untill the flower ages a little when the stands spread, the crest/ beard is as John said. It is interesting as an intersectional cross

[David Nicholson]

Hi David and Peter. Sorry to tell you but that is not Paltec. I have had it for many years.
Here is a photo from Iris City Gardens site. It has a crest with some beard hairs, very small.
Thomas Silvers has been crossing Bearded and Tectorum for several years and registered
"Flying Dragon" in 2004. It is larger than Paltec.

John B

John, according to the Iris City Gardens site the Iris shown, and pictured as "Paltec" is a cross between Iris tectorum and a bearded iris "Edina". The label on mine says a cross between Iris pallida and tectorum. It wouldn't be impossible for there to be more than one plant masquarading as "Paltec" would it?

Peter, will try to get a better picture during next week.

[PeterT]

Been on the allotment this evening, Paltec was in flower, as well as some germanica forms

[PeterT]

these are young plants of collected Iris germanica forms, a form from sw france and spain, collected on the Island of Sun , Lake Titicaca between Peru and Bolivia where it had naturalised.
Iris germanica alba from Beaucaire
and Iris germanica vulgaris.

[daveyp1970]

I think you would be right but that Paltec is a clone and I have found it stable, it looks like a bearded Iris untill the flower ages a little when the stands spread, the crest/ beard is as John said. It is interesting as an intersectional cross

cheers for that Peter i didn't know Paltec was the clonal name i thought it might of been the grex name having pal and tec in the name.I understand now.

[daveyp1970]

there are some lovely Germanica forms there love the alba form.