Bearded Iris 2010

[fermi de Sousa]

your 'An old hybrid' resembles cv. 'Don Juan' introduced by Ferdinand Cayeux 1928. 
I have the same unknown hybrid in my garden and found a name accidentally today in the www.

Thanks, Armin,
it certainly looks the same! Good to know the name. Obviously a good one in a bed!

Paul,
I've found a better survival rate with Bearded iris re-planted after the summer heat at least with our conditions.
Webmaster and AcidPrint will be welcomed when you have enough to spare!
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Interesting.  I think you do actually "bake" more than we do, particularly with your garden structure that traps heat as it does.  I do tend to establish things in pots the first year in general as well, so they get better watering and hopefully offset better.  That is also why I probably find that dividing them after flowering works.  What might be best then is for me to divide you a piece off things now, and pot it and keep it through summer here?

[Ray]

Some of my TBI flowering now,they have been around for 20-30 years or more so names have long gone.bye Ray

[arillady]

Armin Fermi's old TB does look the same - I seem to have a whole dose of similar colourings - it is only when you put them side by side that you can see the differences.
A few of the oldies that have been flowering.

[Armin]

Pat,
I'm glad to see you keep those old cultivars in honour. 
In spite of the fact they do not meet the crimped flower shape and size of modern TBI breeding targets I still prefer the 'old Iris' flowers.
'Don Juan' and related color variations are good examples. In any case worth to keep!

[fermi de Sousa]

Here are a couple more of the "older hybrids" in a similar vein to "Don Juan"






And some newer ones




cheers
fermi

[Otto Fauser]

compared to Fermi ,I grow only a few DBI ( not enough sunny spots left in the rockgarden ),including this one , whose colours I adore. Would someone have a name for it - Fermi does not know it .

[Paul T]

Otto,

I think that looks like 'Windrose' to me.    From memory it is variable in strength of colouring over the age of the flower.  Opens darker and fades out a bit, probably also related to the climate/weather it is growing in.  It's a beauty.  

[fermi de Sousa]

Friends nearby gave just a bagful of iris rhizomes last autumn and a few of the ones above came from them and so did this lovely unfrilled maroon one


We went to their place yesterday and took some pics of their "rainbow" bed!








And some close-ups








More to follow,
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

More pics from our friends, Michael and Darryl's garden,
a stem of the last one was entered in the local flower show and won Best Bloom in Show!

cheers
fermi

[Armin]

Wow!
impressive as mass planting of crocus

[Maggi Young]

Wow!
impressive as mass planting of crocus

Yes!!

What a lovely range of colours and those plants all growing in such good health.... very impressive..... 

Congrats to your chums on their lovely garden, fermi.

[David Nicholson]

Wow! from me too.

[angie]

Got to say it WOW what a show.

Angie

[mark smyth]

We went to their place yesterday and took some pics of their "rainbow" bed!

and Iris is the Goddess of the rainbow!