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Title: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on February 06, 2020, 05:02:44 PM
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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Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: brianw on February 07, 2020, 02:17:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 07, 2020, 02:41:59 PM

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.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 08, 2020, 11:09:58 AM
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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Title: For all of irisarians! Next British Iris Society show
Post by: Maggi Young on February 09, 2020, 02:16:44 PM
 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/)
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Gail on February 09, 2020, 03:00:54 PM
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??
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 09, 2020, 03:12:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on March 31, 2020, 06:49:57 AM
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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Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: GordonT on March 31, 2020, 11:29:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on May 22, 2020, 01:31:23 PM
From seed Iris chrysographes

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Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on May 23, 2020, 05:50:57 AM
From seed Iris chrysographes
Wow! That's a stunner, David!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Steve Garvie on May 23, 2020, 09:34:41 AM
A superb Iris David!
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on May 23, 2020, 11:00:18 AM
Thanks Steve and Fermi
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Hannelore on June 06, 2020, 02:52:00 PM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: ruweiss on June 06, 2020, 08:59:46 PM
Iris songarica grows at a dry place in the rainshade
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on June 07, 2020, 08:01:04 PM
Anyone recognise this? Is it Iris x fulvala?

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Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on June 08, 2020, 01:22:15 PM
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 )."
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on June 10, 2020, 03:02:42 PM
Thanks. Drat lost labels!
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: GordonT on June 26, 2020, 07:25:07 PM
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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Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on June 26, 2020, 08:10:45 PM
Lovely colour Gordon.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: WSGR on June 27, 2020, 06:27:33 AM
 l love the colour of the first iris. If I had it, I would hand pollinate it. Lovely striking colour.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 16, 2020, 08:12:55 AM
First flower on Iris macrosiphon (RMB 891) grown from seed sent kindly by Robert (back when that sort of thing was possible :'( )
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 05:28:53 AM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 03, 2020, 01:16:06 PM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Leena on November 07, 2020, 08:50:48 AM
I like your Iris orientalis, what a nice plant to get from self sown seed.
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on November 08, 2020, 03:39:54 PM
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! ;)
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 09, 2020, 11:00:24 AM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 09, 2020, 11:06:04 AM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 25, 2020, 12:41:26 PM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: Leena on November 26, 2020, 03:31:21 PM
How very nice irises! My favourites were 'Intensity' and 'Wild At Heart', I have never seen colours like that here:).
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: hamparstum on November 26, 2020, 11:22:57 PM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 27, 2020, 07:57:06 AM
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
Title: Re: Iris non-bearded 2020
Post by: hamparstum on November 27, 2020, 10:37:27 AM
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
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