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Reticulata Iris - 2024

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Alan McMurtrie:
I recommend replanting in a new spot in the garden every couple of years.

Another thing to try is digging the bulbs just as the leaves are starting to turn brown.  Let the bulbs dry in a well ventilated spot, then store in mesh bags over the Summer and replant in the Fall.  This is something I do with bulbs propagated at a friends farm.    For some reason bulbs left in the ground disappear.  I'll plant Iris sophenensis in a new spot in the garden.  The bulbs will do well there for a number of years, but then start to do poorly.  More some to another spot and you are good there for a couple of years.

Kew uses liquid high K fertilizer (3rd number) for their Junos and Reticulatas that are grown in pots.  That's something I need to try.

In Holland it doesn't always get down below freezing.  Some years the canals freeze.  Many years they don't

Here's 19-DS-1

Diane Whitehead:
Thank you for showing both parents and the seedling.  It is so interesting to see how colours and patterns combine.

ashley:
These are such jewels Alan; congratulations 8)
Like Fermi I'm not very successful at keeping them going, although probably for different reasons, so thanks for this advice.

Akke:
Iris ‘Eye Catcher’

No trick, the flower stalks were also melted together.

The yellow-greenish ones I got didn’t work out unfortunately, but I. species are generally doing well here, digging them up and planting them again in fall.

This part of the Netherlands is a little bit colder, canals freezing more often (at least they used to). Alan, I’m guessing your bulbs are grown in Holland, the western, coastal region (I grew up there, snow was something magical). 

Alan McMurtrie:
Yes, there is a grower near Den Helder who is growing and selling some of my hybrids.  Unfortunately there are issues...

It is particularly interesting that Eye Catcher often has multiple petals.  This was not case with my original bulbs.  And it doesn't appear to be the case with the tetraploid version (shown here).  Either way, Eye Catcher is beautiful (at least in my eyes it is)


Reticulata Iris 18-CO-1
Should be a triploid [North Star (00-BC-1) x Eye Catcher (98-NP-4) Tetra]



Reticulata Iris 18-EM-2 (slightly damaged by a slug), which has almost no style arm markings


One of my favourites:  09 in 2015   A small bulb was left behind when I replanted the 2009 seedling area with 2015 seed -- hence the "name"
[The idea of creating a light yellow was one of my original goals when I started working with diploid Iris danfordiae]

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