Iris and some Irids 2011

[fermi de Sousa]

PC Iris "Big Money"


TBI "Barbara, My Love"


An old "Dutch" iris 'Golden Harvest'


A "lost label" TBI


Siberian Iris "Bluebird"


cheers
fermi

[David Nicholson]

Iris paradoxa ex AMcM
Iris stolonifera in bud

Hi Pat,

What is 'ex AMcM'? Any location where it was collected from?

Probably my last iris photo for 2011: Iris variegata, presently reblooming. Hope it doesn't over-exhaust itself...

AMcM is Alan McMurtrie a Canadian grower and raiser particularly of Junos and reticulata
http://reticulatas.com/HTML%20Pages/index.html

[xthomasx]

Thank you, David !

[t00lie]

Very nice Fermi

Here's a purple P.C.

followed by a seedling .

Plus a Standard Dwarf  ? Bearded Iris --about 30cm in height.White coloured with a touch of grey .Lovely crinkled surface to the petals .

Cheers Dave.

[Tom Waters]

Dave - I wonder if that last one might be 'Zua' - an antique IB with crinkly petals. I haven't grown it, but this reminds me of photos I've seen.

[t00lie]

Gee Tom thanks  
Yip that looks like it alright .

Don't know why i described it as having a touch of grey  ...of course it's blue.

Interestingly while trawling the 'net' i came across a NZ site-- http://historiciris.blogspot.com/2008/09/historic-iris-zua.html ---that gives a background to it's breeding and availability here in NZ and USA at that time,(2008).

Cheers Dave.

[arillady]

Yes Terry has a good site doesn't he?

[t00lie]

Yes he does Pat.

If i had the room I'd be keen on growing a lot more Iris sps that show some colour about this time --Not sure when I .planifolia and I. willmottiana flower here, if it's earlier then i have some doubts that I'll ever see blooms on my seedlings ......   

They may have to be shipped off to a friend with a sunnier property.

Cheers Dave.

[PeterT]

The junos are better kept cool, the growing season is longer that way, the flowers come later and last longer too. sunny, mild weather, planifolia will flower in automne, but kept cool and/ or dry untill mid winter it will wait untill spring. willmottiana is early to mid spring.

[David Nicholson]

My first Iris unguicularis flower of the new season, and only two days later than it was last year.

[Lesley Cox]

Last summer when it had finished flowering I lifted and divided, for the 4th time, Iris barbatula. It has always flowered at ground (raised bed) level before but this time I put the largest piece into a bigger pot than the little nursery ones and it is flowering much taller. Still stemless but the flower tubes are about 8cms high instead of at surface level. It makes the flowers easier to see I suppose when they can be viewed from the side. First in 2007, then taken today.

[PeterT]

I had this experiance of it flowering taller this year too!

[arillady]

Lovely iris species and strange that it is flowering in the same way in both hemispheres for once.

[WimB]

Wonderful species, Lesley! Didn't know that one!

[Rafa]

Wow!! Lesley beautiful and georgeus pots! I tried this species many times with plants from my friend Jim Kee, but never have success...