Juno (Scorpiris) season 2012

[PeterT]

are all the plants solitary Oron?

[arillady]

Wow the variations are amazing - and all that lovely pollen they produce!
It is one of the maybe one day if stocks build up and it gets off the really rare status.
Thanks Oron for posting these. It does look very parched and this is your winter.

[art600]

Oron

I lioke them all, but the dark one...

[WimB]

Oron,

wonderful plants.

Arthur can have the dark one, I'll take the whitest   
The colour of the whitest one reminded me of one of thoses white crab-spiders, don't know why, but I think they're lovely!

[ronm]

Now they are, to me, what the Junos are all about. Superb! Thank you for sharing them Oron.

[Rafa]

Terrific forms of I. edomensis, Oron!! looking also for Miriam and Fred pictures, also like last year, I would like to see pictures of the superb picnic (I imagine...!) with Miri's foods!!

[David Nicholson]

My first Juno of the season, Iris 'Warlsind'. About a month earlier than last season and I didn't start watering until mid-October this time whereas last season I started early September.


By the way got an email from Amazon this morning to say that at looooong last the copy of the re-print I ordered eons ago of "A Guide to Species Irises:Their Identification and Cultivation" is likely to be shipped at the end of this month.

[Tom Waters]

By the way got an email from Amazon this morning to say that at looooong last the copy of the re-print I ordered eons ago of "A Guide to Species Irises:Their Identification and Cultivation" is likely to be shipped at the end of this month.

I received my copy yesterday, almost a year to the day from when I ordered it. I have to say I'm delighted with it. The descriptions of species are more detailed and systematic than in Mathew or Kolhein, making it a better resource for identifying plants one is unsure of.

[ronm]

Hope mine will be here soon too Tom. Sounds good.
A nice suprise for me today was this I svetlaneae flowering for me for the first time from seed. I selfed the parent in '07 and sowed the seed Dec '07. I only got 7 seed and have only managed to bring 3 through. This is the first to flower for me, and I dont think the other 2 will do it this year. We have had a warmer spell for the last few days and this came from nowhere. 

[ronm]

pics

[ronm]

Just seen a number of new Juno pics on the SIGNA site. These are attributed to Tony Hall, Junos in cultivation at Kew, 12th Feb 2012, posted by the New Zealand Iris Society. Was this a special talk, an article for a journal or something other? Am I missing something and this information is 'old hat'. Would love to know as Junos are my second love, and any info. (esp. from T.Hall esq. ) is most welcome.
There are a number of species, e.g. this link to I. parvula, http://www.signa.org/index.pl?Display+Iris-parvula+2+2

[David Nicholson]

Well done with the svetlaneae Ron, very nice indeed.

[Oron Peri]

Many thanks everyone.

are all the plants solitary Oron?

Peter, yes often solitary, rarely populations up to 20 -30 plants but quite distant from each other.
One flower, occasionally 2 flowers in mature plants.

[Oron Peri]

Terrific forms of I. edomensis, Oron!! looking also for Miriam and Fred pictures, also like last year, I would like to see pictures of the superb picnic (I imagine...!) with Miri's foods!!

Rafa
Unfortunately we didn't have Miriam with us in Jordan so we were eating bars and chocolate most of the time...

[ronm]

May I ask Oron, generally how far are the seedlings dispersed away? Obviously each seedling cannot be 'attached' to its parent, but approximately? Is it cm., metres?