Irises-Non-Bearded 2012

[daveyp1970]

Lovely Wim. I've tried it twice from Exchange seed and both times it turned out to be pseudacorus.

David i have a spare plant if you would like.

[David Nicholson]

Dave, will PM you.

[Gerhard Raschun]

If anyone, like me, finds Gerhards Iris nertchinska a new one on them, I looked it up in Mathew.

Iris nertschinskia, he says, is synonymous with Iris sanguinea in Section Sibiricae, a plant of mountainous meadows, open wet plains and light deciduous woods, ocurring in south Eastern Russia from the east of lake Baikal eastwards to the Ussuri region into Korea and Japan.

many thanks for correct spelling , David ! Now I know while I haven`t found a lot of information, only a Japanese description.....

I can not explain why the flowers show no variation, I´m not sure- believe the seeds come from Fritz Kummert.

[Gerhard Raschun]

Iris wilsonii hybrid, or something else ?

[ronm]

I.setosa arctica

An Alaskan dwarf form. The leaves reach 8cm maximum, and the tallest flower is only 18cm high.

[daveyp1970]

Ron i have it in flower at the moment and it is a little stunner,nice pic s of it.

[ronm]

Thanks Davey, but I found it impossible to capture the true 'character' of this plant. It's so small, but in perfect proportion and the so subtle variegation just eluded my attempts to capture it,  . Glad you enjoy growing it too, I agree a little beauty, .

[David Nicholson]

That's a real gem Ron.

[David Nicholson]

Iris sibirica 'Gull's Wing'

[daveyp1970]

Iris sibirica 'Gull's Wing'

Another beauty David

[ronm]

Iris sibirica 'Gull's Wing'

Beautiful 

[David Nicholson]

I love 'em all. If I had more space I would have many more.

[ronm]

It's a little strange, because I was just looking at this plant yesterday ( in books and on the net ), and thinking how wonderful it was. And today........ 
Lovely 

[David Nicholson]

The thing is they are freely available, not particularly expensive, and are relatively easy to grow in virtually any soil or conditions. Mine grow in the same bed as most of my herbaceous stuff and the bed receives at least a couple of inches of composted horse manure each year. Seems to please them. The one thing I don't like is that at the end of the season they look very untidy but at Cothele House they cut all the growth down to a couple of inches high in early September. I haven't risked this..... yet!

[David Nicholson]

Grown from seed Iris spuria ssp. maritima