Iris and some Irids 2008

[Rafa]

Congratulations Dimitri, very nice pumila collection!

[Armin]

Dimitri, super pumilas

[Maggi Young]

Yuri, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

[Yuri Pirogov]

Maggi, Thank you!!
A bit more Iris pumila, now from North Caucasus. They grow on sandy pasture.

[tonyg]

Beautiful Iris pumila - thanks for sharing them with us!  It is great to see them in their natural home.  Perhaps I should try them in my sandy soil here?

[Hans A.]

Yuri, thanks a lot for the information and this superb habitatphoto - and happy birthday.

[Rafa]

Happy birthday Yuri, you have given us a beautiful sight!! but we should have been the ones who gave you a present

[Joakim B]

Dimitri thanks for the information and congratulation to have such nice varieties in the nature and now in the garden  

Yuri Happy birthday and thanks for the nice picture of the habitat of the pumilas.

Anyone able to confirm the Id on the "iris" on the last page?
Maggi with the better picture can You con firm that it is Libertia and if so can anyone help with growing instructions?

Chloe nice to be back and thanks for the welcome 

Kind regards
Joakim

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful view you offered us Yuri !  Stunning !
Thanks for sharing it and happy birthday from Belgium as well !

[Rafa]

hi Fermi

I do sometimes get a bit of seed but as I said my biggest problem is getting them to flower in the first place. I do not try and do hybridising because I really concentrate on the species and have no spare room for others.I think iris are a problem because they bloom for only two or three days and then just sit there for the rest of the year needing looking after.here is a large bearded one that I collected in Turkey which I have in the garden.The site has now gone,its a block of flats. I think it is a very lovely colour

Tony, This plant remeber me Iris mesopotamica, maybe introduced?

[johnw]

Nothing earth-shattering here - Iris danfordiae taken on the 15th here. I love the green markings. It's so easy to pass over the common ones.

It still surprises that Iris Katherine Hodgkins grows well here and even spreads given its rather temperamental parent. It seems not so long ago it was nearly impossible to obtain. Now we see it in chain stores.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Happy birthday from me too Yuri, though I think it is MY birthday with that fantastic picture. AN IRIS LAWN!!!!!

[Oakwood]

Hi, Yuri! glad to see you too here! About my wild collected "red" form of I. pumila - it's not exeptional case in Azov steppes. My friend found yet recently 3 forms of such coloration there. But in wild conditions they aren't so saturated-red, they are more rose and lighter. This coloration appeared only on my extremely fat tchernozem-soil!

[hadacekf]

In the proximity of Vienna grow Iris pumila.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, my word!! I cannot believe how beautiful these pictures are.
 A revelation and delight, thank you, Franz