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Iris serotina
« on: August 08, 2012, 01:33:41 PM »
Here is an Iris serotina in the garden, I think it could be the last Iris in bloom

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 03:26:46 PM »
Its beautiful Rafa....
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 03:35:30 PM »
Stunning iris Rafa,will you be collecting seed from it?  ;D
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2012, 03:49:56 PM »
Beautiful Rafa !
I have some seedlings.. very young  ;D
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2012, 03:54:52 PM »
I would like to collect this year, it take 2 moths to set seeds. In my notes, it is ready October the first.
Fred, next season they should bloom?

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2012, 05:35:47 PM »
Well worth waiting for Rafa.
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2012, 06:37:07 PM »
Beautifull Raffa!
 My seedlings might flower next year (I hope). are there different colour forms?
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2012, 09:26:03 PM »
yes, there are a colour range, dark to pale blue. It is an interesting iris for summer.

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2012, 10:47:25 AM »
Your last beautiful iris just when the arils are starting to bloom.
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2012, 11:32:21 AM »
Pat, I think when "teletransportation" will be ready it will be very useful to us to have two opportunities per year to see Narcissus and Iris blooms by changing the hemisphere  ;D

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2012, 12:12:02 PM »
Sounds good to me.
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2012, 02:22:53 PM »
That is a real beauty Rafa and a peculiar flowering time...
Can you tell at what elevations it grow and does it receive summer rains?
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2012, 10:55:37 PM »
Just beautiful! :o
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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2012, 08:38:37 PM »
This species is very hardy, the place I use to collect is  mountain range arround 1000m, limestone. The temperatures could be during winter -10º and 35º or even more 40ºC. Watering from October to June and then very few. It has british punctuality blooming: August the First, and seeds October the first. I think this year I will collect some seeds...

It could have 1, 2, 3 (maybe more in old bulbs) consecutive flowers per bulb, like Iris xiphium...
« Last Edit: August 15, 2012, 09:40:13 PM by Rafa »

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2012, 11:29:16 AM »
Rafa sounds like an iris species that might be happy here.
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