Regelias 2012

[PeterT]

The Paul Christian Rare Plants website I got this from says they raised these from seed each year to ensure virus-free stock, so it's possible that some hoogiana pollen was involved, I suppose.

Paul Christian raised them from seed? - or the person who sells them to Paul Christian? I suspect that P C was supplied with the wrong plant in this case.

[Tom Waters]

Second bloom opened today. This one strikes as having a more stolonifera-like form

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely iris, anyway.

[Tom Waters]

I concur, Lesley!

[Tom Waters]

'Bronze Beauty Van Tubergen', a stolonifera/hoogiana hybrid.

[arillady]

 'Bronze Beauty Van Tubergen - wow I do love this one.

[Lesley Cox]

My mother had this over 50 years ago, bought from the firm of R.E. Harrison in Palmerston North. They had others too, along with a lot of regelio-cyclus hybrids. Where are they now? The firm itself is long gone and I don't know of anyone who has any of these stunning plants in their gardens now. It's very good to see it again Tom. Take good care of it.

[Rafa]

a coupe of regelias

[Tom Waters]

Very nice, Rafa. Glad to see lineata being grown!