Juno (Scorpiris) season 2012

[PeterT]

   Iris peshmeniana for Christmas 

[BULBISSIME]

Well done peter ! Nice Christmas gift :-)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Iris planifolia is flowering for the first time with me ! 

[BULBISSIME]

Superb ! Spring is coming Luc 

[PeterT]

A very poor picture of an Iris rosenbachiana form which flowerd before Christmas, and Iris persica flowering now from a little root which I was given 4 years ago.

[bulborum]

Well
after three years waiting
this White Iris planifolia baby I collected in Sicily flowers
Not sure if the baby was also pure white
but ....................YES
Iris planifolia Sicilian White

Roland

[BULBISSIME]

Well done Roland ! Superb White form !!

[PeterT]

beautiful Roland. I remember Tony Hall suggesting that the white forms of I planifolia had a gene which predisposed it to weak growth and contracting virus.

I grew white and blue forms together in a large pot, the  white plant grew well but the blue was virused and gave it to the white one, so now I grow them all in seperate pots, and try to have the babies seperate.

[bulborum]

And now is the waiting if he (or she) starts multiplying
so I can share this beauty
I will try to pollinate too

Roland

[bulborum]

Peter

did you get seeds from the white one
or do you need cross pollination

Roland

[PeterT]

I did not get seeds from those plants Roland, I think that most Junos can self pollinate, but it  is easier to get seeds with two clones. Some Junos self more easily than others but I believe that the size of the plant and how well it is growing might also be important.
I have been told that most Iris have a very long pollen tube, so for the ovary to be fertilised they should be pollinated in the morning when the sun gets warm, and kept warm until night.

[Angelo Porcelli]

of course Iris planifolia grows much better in the ground, where possible. Mine are in full flowering now. I agree that the white one is much weaker, I do have one and it struggles from years. I have raised some hundreds from seed and got a nice variability in colouring, but no whites so far.

[Hans A.]

Fantastic plants everyone! -  I did not notice  white planifolias are much weaker (but produce less offsets)- seedlings of my white plants are growing much stronger than my blue ones sown the same day - hope they will be true to colour. As I remember mine came from a white population of spanish mainland, so I think the chances to get white ones again is not bad.