Juno (Scorpiris) season 2012

[Jan]

4 brothers

[PeterT]

More Jan, Please 
tomorrow will they open?

[arillady]

  Jan I can see I need to order more seeds soon.
What a stunning, incredible, super collection!!!!

[PeterT]

Jan I can see I need to order more seeds soon.
What a stunning, incredible, super collection!!!!

[Janis Ruksans]

Iris stenophylla allisonii at Gundogmus pictured just a week ago (more you can see and read at my entry on Crocus pages (Crocotrip with Ibrahim)
Janis

[PeterT]

a lovely species Janis, different to the form I have because of the veining.

[Jan]

I envy, I have a

[Hans A.]

Mouthwatering collection Jan!!

Thanks for this great pictures of Iris stenophylla allisonii in nature - did you also find clumps of this species?
It is forming clumps slowly here. (sorry for the bad picture, it was taken in February just after snow and freezing...)

[PeterT]

nice clumps Hans, it clumps in pots too.

[Janis Ruksans]

Mouthwatering collection Jan!!

Thanks for this great pictures of Iris stenophylla allisonii in nature - did you also find clumps of this species?
It is forming clumps slowly here. (sorry for the bad picture, it was taken in February just after snow and freezing...)

Didn't see in wild clumps. I think the teritory is heavily grazed and it is nice that it alive there. It can't collect so much food reserves for dividing. Yours are magnificient, Hans. With me it didn't grow very well - I still have it, it sometimes increase, but our conditions here isn't very good for this species (as well as for persica, galatica etc.)
Janis

[Jan]

Hans, as in a fairy tale !!!

[Hans A.]

Thanks a lot Peter, Janis and Jan -this species belongs to the 'easier' ones here - I. persica and galatica are more tricky, and Iris rosenbachiana ungrowable.

[BULBISSIME]

I'm just speechless... so 
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing all this pictures, but we also can see that Juno isn't an easy section....

[arillady]

Hans why do you think Iris rosenbachiana is ungrowable? Do you get it growing from seed and then lose it?
Maybe because it grows at 1000 to 2000 metres - maybe the lowest altitude bulbs might grow.

[Janis Ruksans]

Hans why do you think Iris rosenbachiana is ungrowable? Do you get it growing from seed and then lose it?
Maybe because it grows at 1000 to 2000 metres - maybe the lowest altitude bulbs might grow.

In Hans location is far too hot. It is growing but not happy with me in greenhouse, far better grow here on open field, but there it is something risky for extremes of weather, so I'm growing main stocks in greenhouse near doors which stay open to keep them cooler. Outside allways are planted few bulbs and bulb crop is far better regardless of occasional flower or even leaf damage by late spring and night frosts.
Janis