Oncos 2012

[BULBISSIME]

Yes Miriam, I have survivors, more than I thought, and many more blossoms to come than last year too 
No more pics from your garden ? or from the nature ? 

[Miriam]

to be continued....I have buds on gatesii and kirkwoodii.

[BULBISSIME]

Ahhhhh !
That are good news 

[arillady]

Oron again more stunning photos - good to see the associated plants.
Lesley I checked every photo in the AGS Cleveland thread and did not find the oncos - did like the Asarum though - can you do a link please?

[Lesley Cox]

Pat, I've just had a look through the 3 pages of the Cleveland show and I CAN'T FIND IT EITHER!!! Maybe it was another show but I can't see it in anything as recent. I only saw the darmned pic yesterday or the day before. Was there a show at Hexham? I think I'm going dotty.

[Lesley Cox]

I was apparently looking at the AGS Cleveland Show 2011! and it's on Page 1 but how I came to be looking at last year's show I don't know. I can't do links. They won't work for me when I try to cut/copy and paste but also there's nowhere at the top of the thread page I can cut and paste from.

[Diane Clement]

I was apparently looking at the AGS Cleveland Show 2011! and it's on Page 1 but how I came to be looking at last year's show I don't know. I can't do links. They won't work for me when I try to cut/copy and paste but also there's nowhere at the top of the thread page I can cut and paste from.

The link to Cleveland show 2011 with the onco is here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7165.0
and another, urumiense x paradoxa mirabile at East Anglia 2011:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7243.30

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for the links, Diane.
The two forms of paradoxa hybrids are rather lovely, are they not? Both from Ray Drew's stable, I see.

[Rafa]

well I am still in shock guys...  not enough smileys  x1.000000000000!
Here is my humble contribution, Iris kirkwoodii

[arillady]

Wow Rafa that seems tall.
Thanks Diane for the links - now I understand. How stunning is that paradoxa hybrid.

[Hans A.]

Wow - some superb pictures in a few days!
Thanks for sharing them - Oron the habitat pictures are fascinating - no landscape architect could design it better!
Beautiful plants Fred and Rafa - here also Iris sari is flowering but some funny beetle like to destroy nearly any Oncoflower - so no picture.
But found some more flowering.
Iris kirkwoodii calcarea, Iris lortetii, Iris lycotis and an about 110 cm tall Iris kirkwoodii x atrofusca hybrid.

[BULBISSIME]

very strange your hybrid Hans..
Iris atrofusca is not a tall plant... did you create the hybrid by yourself ?

[Hans A.]

Thanks Fred - this year Iris atrofusca flowered for me the first time and I noticed it is smaller than other black species here - so I also have some doubts if the parentage can be correct (not my cross). Whatever it is, it is a very impressive plant - here it is (background) together with Iris kirkwoodii calcarea (foreground) and Iris bostrensis (middle right).

[fermi de Sousa]

It has been pointed out to me by an artist friend [Debra] that it's correctly called Iris kirkwoodiae as it's named for Mrs Kirkwood!
see link: http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=438758-1&back_page=/ipni/editSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_wholeName%3Diris%2Bkirk*%26output_format%3Dnormal
She was informed of this distinction by Kew as she was exhibiting a painting of the Iris kirkwoodiae x I atropurpurea hybrid which I posted here in 2011 - grown from a rhizome sent to me by Pat Toolan - and they insisted on the correct nomenclature.
cheers
fermi

[arillady]

Fermi,
I wonder if Debra would make a print of the painting sometime?
I'll let those members who understand well the naming of plants to comment...