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Luc and Henrik, your plants are fabolous!Henrik it is great to see your Iris kirkwoodii from Jim flowering, did you give it a special treatment? The plants I had received from Jenny will not flower this year, but I am more than happy they are all doing fine.
WimIs your plant in the soil - or in apot buried in the soil?Good flower
Great picture Luc!Here one of my Highlights for this season: Iris nectariferaIt was not easy to establish and the first two years after planting it stayed very small compared to now. This species has been introduced several times in cultivation but it seems to be tricky in bulbframes or greenhouses as most grower I know lost it before they got a flower. There are not many information about this species and the best (and only) picture of the flower I could find in Internet has not the best resolution (http://www.agaclar.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3320 -Nr.10). The second picture I know is one taken by Brian Mathew (Backcover ASI yearbook 2006). The flower he showed has standards of the same colour as the falls. The colouration of the plant here is similar to those which can occure in Iris sari but veining is something thinner and in difference it produces stolons.Edit: Iris heylandiana is an other hardly known plant (from Irak) which is said to be related to Iris nectarifera, it also produces stolons - searching for pictures I found this one: http://www.smcallister.com/images/species/heylandiana.jpg
Flowering here today:Iris acutiloba
Great great plants and pic everyone !Hans, your iris nectarifera is superb and I hope to see it in nature one day to compare with I. sari.Hendrick, your plants are so well grown too, and your iris antilibanotica is just stunning You I. kirkwoodii is also great and quite different from those I've seen; do you know the origin ?Luc, as Hendrick, I love your I. elegantissima, that i've still not manage to flower here, although plants are growing well.