Author Topic: Iris and some Irids 2008 (Read 31350 times)

mark smyth · « **Reply #90 on:** April 15, 2008, 12:06:30 AM »

Thanks for the tips with I sari. I'll leave it outside now for the rest of the summer

Tony Willis · « **Reply #91 on:** April 15, 2008, 07:12:55 PM »

my iris pumila from the raised bed and then a coup[le of pictures of iris schactii from Turkey

David Nicholson · « **Reply #92 on:** April 15, 2008, 07:32:33 PM »

Lovely Iris schachtii Tony, those plum coloured bracts are beautiful. Do you keep it under glass, I note Brian Mathew suggests it is difficult to keep in Northern climes? Mind you he says that about Iris pumila but yours looks healthy enough.

Tony Willis · « **Reply #93 on:** April 15, 2008, 07:50:11 PM »

David apart from that one pumila all my dwarf iris are under glass.I get quite nice growth but hopless flowering. Last autumn I changed greenhouses for them and they are now in a much sunnier area to see if this helps.I am also feeding which is a new venture for me.here are two forms of lutescens but they may be pseudopumila,I like the blue but think the other one is horrible.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #94 on:** April 15, 2008, 08:04:22 PM »

I'm with you all the way-I like the blue!

fermi de Sousa · « **Reply #95 on:** April 16, 2008, 12:50:23 AM »

Hi Tony,
I like all iris and though your first lutescens is a bit strange it would probably be a great parent! Do you ever get seed or do any hybridizing?
cheers
fermi

Tony Willis · « **Reply #96 on:** April 16, 2008, 01:42:32 PM »

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

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #97 on:** April 16, 2008, 10:15:40 PM »

"...trade paradise, to put up a parking lot."

I don't quite agree with your time frames Tony, most irises once established would outlast crocus, tulip, narcissus or snowdrop patches, but all the same, it's why I think they're best grown in among many other kinds of bulbs and perennials, even shrubs. Then the off times are un-noticed. But sure, there's nothing so miserable as a bed if beared irises once flowering has finished.

Joakim B · « **Reply #98 on:** April 18, 2008, 01:26:09 PM »

Firs lovely pics I have been drooling for a while

Last Year I asked about an "iris" I got in a pot of a bush bought. To be honest I bought the bush for the iris but anyway. Maggi used the bad pics to try to identify it and came up with Libertia
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=143.msg10245#msg10245
I am now happy to say that it flowered again and that I am better in using the camera so maybe it is possible to confirm the identity.
Here are the pics on flower and bud as well as on foliage.
Hope anyone will manage to identify it so it can get proper care. So far it has not improved or become worse but I hope to make it bigger and stronger.

Kind regards
Joakim

Note from Maggi: well, now I see that it is not a Libertia! Perhaps a Sisyrhinchium?

Oakwood · « **Reply #99 on:** April 18, 2008, 01:40:20 PM »

Hello! Lesley proposed to me post my pics with wild selected forms of Iris pumila there to Iris page. So, well done!

Joakim B · « **Reply #100 on:** April 18, 2008, 02:08:37 PM »

Oakwood

Nice one thanks for showing us.
Do they come from the same area or are the plants from many different places?

Kind regards
Joakim

Oakwood · « **Reply #101 on:** April 18, 2008, 02:22:02 PM »

Joakim! It's from different populations but all was collected in the same geographical region - steppes of SE Ukraine. Now I've got 15 clones of this species in my garden.

Casalima · « **Reply #102 on:** April 18, 2008, 02:29:15 PM »

Dimitri, those are very, very wonderful irises!!

Olá Joakim, great to see you here again!!

Chloë
in wet and cold Portugal

Hans A. · « **Reply #103 on:** April 18, 2008, 03:13:44 PM »

wow Dimitri - what beautyful pumilas - I supose you selected them among thousands of "normal" coloured plants ?

Thanks for the pics.

Yuri Pirogov · « **Reply #104 on:** April 18, 2008, 04:13:34 PM »

Hans, they all are "normal" except number 3 probably, the red pumila is really very rare thing.
Dmitry, glad to see you here

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