Reticulate Iris-2012

[art600]

I sowed seed from Alan McMurtrie in Janauary 2006 - nothing germinated until january 2008.  I am now seeing some flower for the first time.

Whilst nothing special I do like the one that bloomed this weekend

[David Nicholson]

I like it too Arthur.

[WimB]

I have been looking envious at all these lovely Iris for a long time, while my garden was frozen.

At last it is spring here too:

Iris George
Iris Harmony
Iris Halkis
Iris Katarina Hodkin
Iris winogradowii

Poul

Very nice to see your Irisses are flowering now too...it's always nice to see spring beginning after waiting for it for a long time, sometimes this forum must be real torture for those who a living more to the north!

[WimB]

I sowed seed from Alan McMurtrie in Janauary 2006 - nothing germinated until january 2008.  I am now seeing some flower for the first time.

Whilst nothing special I do like the one that bloomed this weekend

I like it too Arthur.

So do I, Arthur!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I sowed seed from Alan McMurtrie in Janauary 2006 - nothing germinated until january 2008.  I am now seeing some flower for the first time.

Whilst nothing special I do like the one that bloomed this weekend

I like it too Arthur.

So do I, Arthur!

... and me !! 

[pehe]

I have been looking envious at all these lovely Iris for a long time, while my garden was frozen.

At last it is spring here too:

Iris George
Iris Harmony
Iris Halkis
Iris Katarina Hodkin
Iris winogradowii

Poul

Very nice to see your Irisses are flowering now too...it's always nice to see spring beginning after waiting for it for a long time, sometimes this forum must be real torture for those who a living more to the north!

Thank you Wim. Yes, sometimes it seems that spring never comes. Luckily it is the opposite in the autumn. My autumn bulbs are often ahead of those growing in the south.

Poul

[Janis Ruksans]

Five days ago I opened my greenhouse from winter cover. Here first reticulatas - mostly Alan's hybrids, but a pair of wild species, too.
As allways the first comes up Iris hyrcana - here from Talish in Aserbaijan, but from Iran side blooms, too.
Unfortunately this winter I lost from rot I. histrio from Syria collected there by Arnis - all pot rotted, but seem that seedlings in another pot alive. Here picture from Jim Archibald's plants collected near Hatay (Syria) and grown up here from seeds.
Janis

[udo]

Iris zagrica, blue form in flower today

[udo]

and here the purple form from Iris zagrica

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful Dirk.

[Diane Whitehead]

When can one expect to see a flower on a seedling?

Is it like erythroniums which must have two leaves?

[Tom Waters]

'Katherine Hodgkin' here in the high desert of northern New Mexico - photos taken just now.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Tom, I'd have expected them earlier in your neck of the woods?

[Tom Waters]

Hi David - no, this is about right for the open (unsheltered) garden here. median and arilbred irises bloom in April, tall bearded in May, average last frost around May 10.

[David Nicholson]

Ah! I see Tom, you're Zone 6. I always thought New Mexico would be hot and dry.