Iris and some Irids 2008

[Armin]

Pat,
I agree with Lesley - a wonderful Iris.
I'm sorry can't help with identification.
No idea.

[Maggi Young]

Pat, I am no help to you either, but I couldn't resist a comment on these lovely Iris... to see them naturalised in such profusion... delightful, thank you for these photos.

[Hans A.]

@Pat - thanks a lot for this surprising pics - Did no expect this type of Iris naturalize so freely - have you observed if the plants get seeds?

[Rafa]

No idia of what species could it be, maybe it is a cultivar.

[arillady]

Hans I have not observed any seed pods at all. The blue is possibly a cultivar - pity Nigel Service is not online at all - I believe that the North Rhine Mine was started around the early 1840s  with about 40 families with a shop and post office established in 1860 according to the local history book. Water in the mine was a problem. Keyneton is an English/German settlement. Have wondered if the irises came from Germany. There is also another patch of both growing together north of our property on the same road where there used to be a house. I find these irises intriguing and so any suggestions will be gratefully received.  I would say that the blue grows to about 18inches (flower stalk).
A very lonely sheep grazing spot now with only the mine tower and a couple of ancient (for Australia) trees.
Pat

[arillady]

And two more photos that I scanned at the same time as the others.
Pat

[art600]

Have returned safely from Iran.  We were unlucky to encounter acountry suffering from drought, so flowers were few and far between.  I was delighted to find one of my own Irises had flowered whilst I was away and a friend photographed it.

I will be posting Iris meda and acutiloba photographs soon.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Pat,
we have the same irises naturalised around here though not in the same profusion(!); they are known as "Settlers' white" and "Settlers' Blue"!
I would say that the white is Iris albicans, but I have no name for the other except That I call it the "Florentine iris". Actually I'm not sure that our blue is exactly the same as yours; I don't think the two-tone effect is as strong. I'll take a pic when they bloom again, though I'm sure I've posted a pic of them before.
cheers
fermi

[David Nicholson]

Welcome home Arthur, hope you had a great trip.

[David Nicholson]

Another pretty Dutch Iris from my new bed.

[Joakim B]

Here is a different picture of my I orientalis. It has flowered for a wile and is extremely vigorous. It is now 110 cm in foliage and around 140-150 in flower. I have seen it in two different places here in Portugal (in gardens both seemed to be with more white than my plant. I do not have as much yellow as on Hans A´s plant but from devision it took only a year to flower and it produced many flower stalks with 3 flowers.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Boyed]

together with oncos I photographed other irises
iris pumila 2 forms
and I show iris pumila in the garden, where it is very floriferous and easy-growing

[Boyed]

and this is iris (juno) caucasica

[David Nicholson]

Here is the fourth colour variation from my patch of Dutch Iris from the garden today.

[Joakim B]

David how many flowers did You get from Your 20 bulbs?
I managed to have mine too wet, so a majority rot but I had fewer colors than You from the 50 i bought.  3 in total with a majority being the white and yellow You first showed.

This year I spent a full 1.98€ on 120 bulbs all "blue magic" so it will be interesting to see what i get. Most were planted in pots so they might not like it but quite a few were planted in a mixed bed so I will see what happens. I actually hope to get mixed colours.  . Maybe I only will get expensive humus in the soil in the pots but the ones in the bed seems to survive. I gave away 25 of which 15 is to be planted elsewhere for cut flowers. We will see how that works.

Kind regards
Joakim