Juno (Scorpiris) season 2012

[BULBISSIME]

Great Hans !
Here we have a lot of damages but still don't know how many were killed..... have to wait few weeks. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Wow!!!
Just caught up with this thread and am stunned by those iris in the desert!
And Hans' garden ones are great as well! What colours!
Thanks for posting, guys.
cheers
fermi

[ronm]

Hi Janis, Why can't we grow I edomensis? If you mean outside, in the open, I understand, but if we want to grow it surely we can provide the right conditions? If we knew what they were?

[BULBISSIME]

What they need is simple : plenty of light for 3 months and 1/2 glass of water for the all growing cycle 

[Janis Ruksans]

Hi Janis, Why can't we grow I edomensis? If you mean outside, in the open, I understand, but if we want to grow it surely we can provide the right conditions? If we knew what they were?

It comes out in winter and frosts here are too hard to keep leaf alive regardless of covering with glasswool sheets. The leaf after opening need a lot of light, too. It is possible in greenhouse with additional lighting and heating in winter. But there are many of plants (at present I have 5700 different samples) growable without such investments and in last years I understood that not absolutely everything is needed. Some things grow, some not. It is nature.
Janis

[fermi de Sousa]

What they need is simple : plenty of light for 3 months and 1/2 glass of water for the all growing cycle 

Sounds perfect for our conditions!
I'm sure Pat Toolan and I can accommodate any spare seeds you have and wish to "agist" in Australia
(it's even on the "allowed list" so no trouble with Customs)!
cheers
fermi

[BULBISSIME]

Ok Fermides and Pat, will remember 

[Miriam]

Oron and Fred, I wish I was there with you!
It was worth while just to see this amazing Iris 

Hans, as always I am stunned to see how everything is doing well in your garden!
Ron- beatiful plants!

[ronm]

Thank you Miriam. I love growing from seed from my own plants, and seeing the variation that occurs. Its second best to seeing a large stand 'in nature', but as I will never see many of these plants where they grow naturally, it satisfies my curiosity somewhat. 

[David Nicholson]

My second of the season Iris bucharica 'Baldschuan Yellow' this one from Peter Taggart's List. Seems to flower a couple of weeks before my standard bucharica form. Apologies for the quality of the pics, it was quite windy at the time.

[Maggi Young]

............ this one from Peter Taggart's List. ...........

Peter does a list? 

[art600]

Tony Hall brought acollection of Juno Iris to the British Iris species Group meeting at Myddleton House.

I only took one photograph as the light was difficult  - Iris narbutii

[ronm]

Lovely plants, those I narbutii. 
Can anyone decypher that label?

[ronm]

Nice one David, . Do you grow in good strong light or are you shaded for your Junos?

[David Nicholson]

Nice one David, . Do you grow in good strong light or are you shaded for your Junos?

Thanks Ron. Yes, they are in pretty poor light. They are on the north facing side of the greenhouse which is sheltered by a 6 foot fence just about a yard and a bit away from the greenhouse which in turn is shaded by a large Mahonia. Having said that Devon is mainly in poor light