Iris and some Irids 2008

[Hans A.]

Zhirair - really beautiful colour - is this the normal coloured form in the south of Armenia ?  I remember to have seen more often white ones on pictures.

[mark smyth]

Lesley I havent heard of those but when I get home from work I'll look in the Plant Finder

[Boyed]

Hans,

I haven't seen iris Imbricata blooming in nature. I collected few rhizomes in November, when we went to an excursion to Syunik Region. It was crocus speciosus blooming time. We found the plants just on the hills near the road around the town of Goris. Now 1 out of 6 bloomed. Who knows maybe others could be variable in colour. For example, in pictures I saw more yellow forms

[Rafa]

Beautiful indeed, I usually saw it more yellow

[mark smyth]

Lesley I. flavissima isnt listed in the book. I. mellita var. rubromarginata is listed as suaveolens var rubromarginata. I found your 'Grandma's Hat' while Googling. It's not listed can you tell me more?

[Lesley Cox]

It may be that I. flavissima is considered as a synonym for I. humilis but mine is distinct, as a smaller plant. It was the name given to my plant by Georgi Rodionenko with whom I corresponded at one time. More recently, Gote Svanholm in Sweden sent me some seed.

Iris melita (suaveolens) v. rubromarginata is similar to the purply forms of suaveolens as seen on spring show threads last season but has a clearly defined red outline to each leaf.

I. `Grandmas's Hat' is very neat and small (makes a wide clump though, so too big for a trough) and is of colouring such as one's grandma might appreciate, plummy blue, grape colours. Though as 5 people's grandma, they're not colours that I wear very often. It is a little beauty however, and if you like I can send a plant. Now would be quite a good time, with the little bearded irises dying down here, into winter mode. Mostly summer planting is recommended, following flowering and that's fine but I never had a problem with lifting, dividing at any other time of the year.

[Yuri Pirogov]

A few months ago, Lesley showed us pseudacorus-ensata hybrids called eye-shadows iris. Glad to say, they are available now at Draycott Gardens.
http://www.Draycott-Gardens.com/
Enjoy!

[Lesley Cox]

A few months ago, Lesley showed us pseudacorus-ensata hybrids called eye-shadows iris. Glad to say, they are available now at Draycott Gardens.
http://www.Draycott-Gardens.com/
Enjoy!

Thanks for that link Yuri. I only wish they were available to ME!!!

[mark smyth]

http://www.draycott-gardens.com/psframe.html
One day hopefully they will be available in the UK

[Diane Whitehead]

I bought  Ryugan and Shirabyoshi  from that nursery this month, and Gubijin,
the pseudacorus pod parent that produces the hybrids when crossed with Japanese iris.

I'll let you know if I get some seeds.

Tamberg mentioned a pseudata that produces some pollen, but he is not selling
plants this year.

[Rafa]

Iris germanica var. florentina or Iris albicans?, I'm not sure but I'm think it's Iris albicans reading Brian Mathew's Iris

[Hans A.]

Rafa, in my opinion you have made very beautiful photos of I. albicans.
Here a Iris pseudacorus Alba (?) opened a flower.

[Rafa]

This is definitively a rarety , did you made a marshland between onco gravels?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff guys !
Talking about white - this is white !  Truly beautiful 

[Joakim B]

Nice with a white I.pseudacorus. We have them (edit later The normal yellow) in Sweden in normal soil and they do not get that big foliage 75cm and flower stems a bit taller. Only seen hose in hose type before as a variant.
I did visit the botanical garden in Lisbon and there was a mini version growing in a trough in a creek that was only 20-30 cm high but still had flowers.
They also had a more normal version of 75 cm in the dam. This was smaller than the ones I have seen in nature here in Portugal that is 75 cm-100 cm.
Have anyone seen this small one before?
The pictures are not as good as I would have liked but I wanted to have the signs there for size comparison.

Kind regards
Joakim