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Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: David Nicholson on February 06, 2020, 05:02:44 PM
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I've had this for four years with nary a flower and this year I have three. Iris unguicularis 'Peloponnese Snow'
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I keep meaning to get a white form of this species, but by the time I get into buying mood its flowering is over and I forget about it. Avon and 1 or 2 others sell it sometimes. The blue form has been in flower here since last October.
I was thinking of going to the Iris Show at Wisley this weekend. Never been to this show. Any recommendations? Seems a bit early to see much in flower apart from the "spring bulb" type. I can't say the recent American hybrids appealed to me much when I last saw them on a stand at a London show a few years back.
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I was thinking of going to the Iris Show at Wisley this weekend. Never been to this show. Any recommendations? Seems a bit early to see much in flower apart from the "spring bulb" type. I can't say the recent American hybrids appealed to me much when I last saw them on a stand at a London show a few years back.
I think there will be more to see at the Wisley show than Iris reticulata forms - if the wide range of Iris species I know are in flower right now from friends who grow them are anything to go by - such as the superb species and forms being photographed and shared on Twitter this week by Kit Strange of RHS Kew.
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I thought there would be some goodies at the British Iris Society show at Wisley today ... these photos are from Kit Strange on Twitter from the show , starting with the cart of Kew Iris plants , ready to go...
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"Irises now on display @RHSWisley
at British Iris Society spring show, in the Clore learning centre. Doors open at 10.30 am and finish at 3.30pm"
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For all of irisarians! Next British Iris Society show :
BIS next show date for your diaries is April 25th - for the late spring show. Held at RHS Wisley, in the Glasshouse gallery - 10am - 4pm. A full list of events can be found on the website in the Events and News section......
https://www.britishirissociety.org.uk/198-2/ (https://www.britishirissociety.org.uk/198-2/)
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I thought there would be some goodies at the British Iris Society show at Wisley today
Well lovely to see but a surprise - wasn't there a message on another thread that all the RHS gardens were to be closed today due to adverse weather??
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Well lovely to see but a surprise - wasn't there a message on another thread that all the RHS gardens were to be closed today due to adverse weather??
BIS show was at Wisley on 8th Feb. and went ahead as planned - RHS gardens are all closed today - 9th Feb. 2020 because of Storm Ciara.
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nod to Gordon T who sent me his seeds:
Iris tenax, flowering 2 years and 3 months after sowing
unfortunately a lot of mortality (without transplanting): 4 plants remaining on thirty germinated seeds!
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Glad to see this, Véronique! Everything here is still in suspended animation. Sad to hear that you had high mortality among your seedlings. I have had to scramble this past winter... Last year's sowing of seed from the Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris exchange, all decided to start germinating in November. Seven pots of seedlings sit in a corner of our sunroom, waiting for temperatures to rise enough for them to be hardened off for the move outside. Martin will be happy to see them evicted.
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From seed Iris chrysographes
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From seed Iris chrysographes
Wow! That's a stunner, David!
cheers
fermi
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A superb Iris David!
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Thanks Steve and Fermi
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These Irises grown from seeds flower for the first time. I suggest it is Iris orientalis. They stand on two places.
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In a sunny flower bed, about 1 m high
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In the shadow, about 1,5m high, but bigger flower.
As far as I remember it took some 5 years until they flowered and I hope this is the right species.
Hannelore
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Iris songarica grows at a dry place in the rainshade
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Anyone recognise this? Is it Iris x fulvala?
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That's a new one on me Ralph. Just in case you haven't seen it this is what Brian Mathew has to say about it in 'The Iris'
"...... is sometimes grown in gardens. It is a purple-red flowered hybrid, raised by W R Dykes in 1910, between I. fulva and I brevicaulis (= I. lamancei )."
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Thanks. Drat lost labels!
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This past winter was kind to the Pacific Coast Iris here in Nova Scotia. This one has been showing well, in spite of the heat. Hopefully I'll have a few more plants with better colour/patterning, in bloom next year!
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Lovely colour Gordon.
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l love the colour of the first iris. If I had it, I would hand pollinate it. Lovely striking colour.
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First flower on Iris macrosiphon (RMB 891) grown from seed sent kindly by Robert (back when that sort of thing was possible :'( )
cheers
fermi
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I know these are common plants but they are looking spectacular this year - various Dutch iris hybrids in various parts of the garden
cheers
fermi
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This Iris orientalis originated from a seed (I think) from a neighbour's plant! It came up between rocks in a bulb bed and has been difficult to extricate - so now we just enjoy the flowers and cut it down before the seeds ripen!
cheers
fermi
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I like your Iris orientalis, what a nice plant to get from self sown seed.
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how many years has it taken for Iris macrosyphon to come to flower from seed, Fermi?
this fall I also planted Dutch irises, my garden was too poor in flowers this year: it's easy! ;)
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how many years has it taken for Iris macrosyphon to come to flower from seed, Fermi?
Hi Véronique,
the seed was sown in 2016 and germinated in 2017 and I think I planted it out in winter 2019
cheers
fermi
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I like your Iris orientalis, what a nice plant to get from self sown seed.
Hi Leena,
it's nice but a thug! I can't dig it out. There is a large colony of it in a paddock a few kilometres from here which persists without any attention or watering and looks to be getting larger each year.
I prefer the different colour forms of spuria iris such as Iris 'Intensity'
cheers
fermi
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1) The spuria iris bed
2) Spuria Iris 'Clara Ellen'
3) Spuria Iris 'Golden Candle'
4) Spuria Iris 'Intensity'
5) Spuria Iris 'Wild At Heart'
cheers
fermi
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How very nice irises! My favourites were 'Intensity' and 'Wild At Heart', I have never seen colours like that here:).
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Fermi, my spurias are still at the seedling stage. I got a mixed package seeds from Jelitto, so who knows what will become of them. May I ask you how moist you keep that bed during your hot summer?. If I understand correctly, spurias are mesic plants, quite moisture loving but not as much as Iris maackii, or I. ensata. In my newbye knowledge they are placed nearer to sibiricas in terms of their watering needs. Since my garden is placed atop a sandy substrate, anything that needs water retaining soil is doomed from the start unless one devises something that will simulate a bog. I'm trying out creating my beds lining them with left-over plastic greenhouse lining that has been discarded from our vegetable operation, because the lining has lost its transparency. However it is still water tight. I've tried this with my water loving Primulas (P.florindae and P.vialli) and am planning it for my pond edge irises. Thank you in advance.
Arturo
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Hi Arturo,
I find the spurias are a lot more adapted to our climate than ensatas and even sibericas.
Some of them get a little bit of summer water but most just survive on the winter rain - however the soil here is heavy clay so probably holds more moisture than yours. I think you'd have to keep an eye on yours and give them some water if they start to look stressed during the hot weather, especially when they are young.
Good luck - I look forward to seeing pics when they flower,
cheers
fermi
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Thank you Fermi, I just have to make sure they grow beyond the seedling stage then. They seem at least easy for you, and that gives me a fair idea of what they need.
Arturo