Reticulate Iris - 2016

[Cfred72]

Quels magnifiques Iris Steve 

[Steve Garvie]

Quels magnifiques Iris Steve 

Merci beaucoup mon ami! 

[YT]

Lovely irises, Graeme and Steve!

Iris histrio, Turky, Hatay. From Janis.

[annew]

Alan's lovely Eyecatcher - well named!

[Roma]

'Eyecatcher' is starting to flower with me too. 
Iris histrioides 'Reine Immaculee'
Iris histrioides 'Major' in the garden.  I dug this up a few years ago I was going to redo the bed.  I have lots of little bulbs in pots which I must plant out.  This one must have grown from a small bulb.
I had a few Iris danfordiae about to open yesterday but a hungry rabbit or deer must have chomped them last night

[Tasmanian Taffy]

Hi Steve,
absolutely love Iris Zagrica, I managed to buy some seeds from Kurt Vickery earlier this year so will be sowing them next month ( Autumn) here.
Steve if you don't mind me asking what camera / lens do use for your magnificent photo's.
Regards John.

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks John.
I use a Canon 7D with a Canon EOS 100mm IS macro lens.

Light levels here in Scotland at this time of year are generally poor. I prefer to handhold rather than using a tripod and so image stabilisation is of vital importance.
Even top of the range cameras have a dynamic range which cannot match the human eye -so the range of light to dark perceived by the human eye is "compressed" in a digital SLR. As a result placing the plant within ambient light but against a dark out of focus background helps the image to "pop".

The Iris zagrica image was taken just prior to dusk when blue light predominates -hence the enhanced blue/cyan of this image.

[Tasmanian Taffy]

Thanks Steve,
I use a Canon 60D also with a Canon 100mm macro IS lens, truly great cameras. I know how to use the camera all I need to learn is how to post my photos on the forum
maybe one day I will find some spare time and sit down and work it out. All the best and keep those Iris photos coming,
Cheers John.

[Mark Griffiths]

 Just discovered that alot of mine have already rotted. They were outside in pots so got very wet. I brought some into the greenhouse to flower and even though they've only been there a couple of weeks and then back out alot have already rotted. Don't know whether it was becauae they got too wet before, or being in the greenhouse or too wet since. Can't grow them outside as the slugs just destroy them. 

[art600]

Iris zagrica

Found on the Iraqi border in Iran.  It looks different from yours and I was told it was zagrica.  Have neither seed nor bulbs.

[Cfred72]

It looks the same great base color marks. They are paler and have just drawing less marked lines. May render the picture is different ...

[YT]

Iris ‘Sea Green’ A McM's hybrid

[Johan K.]

Iris histrioides 'Cantab'

Iris histrioides 'Harmony'

Iris histrioides 'Zwanenburg'

[Johan K.]

Iris reticulata 'Blue Note'

Iris reticulata 'Clairette'

Iris reticulata 'Eyecatcher'

Iris reticulata 'Gordon'

Iris reticulata 'Katharine Hodgkin'

[Maggi Young]

A great number of fine plants flowering for you now, Johan!