Iris and some Irids 2010

[David Nicholson]

Here's an example of Iris tingitana I got from Kurt Vickery last year.

[PeterT]

No, it's not in 'Iris of China' and someone else had my "Guide to..."

Not a book to lend out!  its on page 121 I think I found this though http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/dec00/msg00075.html

[PeterT]

some evansias out here, Iris cristata, Iris cristata Vein Mountain, Iris cristata Little Jay, and a Pacific coast Iris which I'd be glad of a name for if its not a hybred.

[PeterT]

and Iris tectorum (?Burma form)

[Lesley Cox]

The various cristatas are lovely Peter. I really like the very pale one. I'd suggest the PC is a hybrid with some douglasii in it. Usually douglasii hybs have a turquoise influence below the haft but it can be just about washed out in the very pale ones. The wide falls are indicative of douglasii blood.

[PeterT]

Thanks Lesley, I thought the flower resembled douglasii too, but I know douglasii as having much courser foliage than this, it grows well too

[Lesley Cox]

Generally, the foliage would be very heavy and even leathery and wide but if the other (putative) parent were, say, innominata or chrysophylla, that could give finer foliage. I think it's just about impossible to guarantee any PC as truly this or that unless the seed if from known wild sources and collected by someone really in the know. Which I'm NOT.

[Graham Catlow]

I bought this Iris verna a few weeks ago without really knowing anything about it. Other than it was North American and it would therefore go in my North American trough.

I am really pleased with the outcome. It is a very pretty little iris and I am now really looking forward to it bulking up.

Graham

[PeterT]

Good luck Graham, some people find Iris verna easy, but not every one!
 Iris moorecroftiana from Pats seed, in flower here, A synonym for Iris lactea but it has a huge range and may involve several species so I keep the superceded name for this pant.
also the first sibirica of the season, which I bought as Iris typhifolia which I think it is, It also has a tendency to be remontant.

[PeterT]

I think it's just about impossible to guarantee any PC as truly this or that unless the seed if from known wild sources and collected by someone really in the know. Which I'm NOT.

me too and they are a nightmare to work out, got a beautifull one from hand polinated seed to post soon, suposed to be innominata, but a bee got there first , here's a couple of more advanced pci hybreds I grew from seed, sorry about the freak flower but these things happen

[arillady]

Nice to see your clump of moorcroftiana Peter - that is what I received it as many years ago as seed either from BIS or SIGNA. I had not clicked that it was an Iris lactea - I have many clumps of these that do so well. I thought this one flowered later than the other lacteas.

[Gerhard Raschun]

For me it was a busy year till yet. So very late, I show now picts of my Iris collection. Some are new and have flowered for the first time.....

[Gerhard Raschun]

and more

[arillady]

Gerhard
Some amazing irises - love the deep blue/purples
orjeni I have not found in any books so far - is it a name rather than a species?

[Gerhard Raschun]

Dear Pat,

I. orjenii is one of the rarest Iris: It is described some years ago, probably a etablished population of a cross between I. reichenbachii / I. bosniaca and a member of the I. pallida group ( I. pseudoillyrica ). There have been found only aprox. 200 plants on Mt. Orjeni in Dalmatia.

If you want I could send you the origin describtion.