Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: mark smyth on April 07, 2007, 11:19:59 PM
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The last Iris page is 14 pages so I'll start a new one for this coming season.
I spotted this in the green house today. I dont go in much these days except to water.
Iris suaveolens - two views
Possibly open tomorrow will be Iris taurica 26 days earlier than last year. It was open on May 2nd in 2006. I suppose being in the greenhouse did this but also covered in buds is I. attica, in the garde, that will also be 4 weeks early if the flowers open next week. Is anyone else finding the same for plants in the garden?
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Absolutely super pix, Mark! Really shows the texture of the flowers and the fab hairy bits!
Wonderful mirroring of the colour of the anther and the beard.
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very observant of you.
I looked for this Iris using the search do da and it didnt come up. I wouldnt have posted the same plant that someone else has shown elsewhere. Oh well..
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Wonderfully clear pics Mark. Great Stuff!! So much detail.
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I bought an Iris suaveolens yesterday from Pounsley Plants http://www.pounsleyplants.com/ flowering had finished and I'm not sure whether to pot it and bring it into the greenhouse next Winter to flower or to plant it out in the garden? Any advice please?
Pounsley Plants took some finding even for a resident of these parts but was well worth looking for. Only small, but a lovely selection of stuff and the owner, Jane Hollow, is really helpful and nice to talk to. I had gone to buy Iris reichenbachii but she had lost her stock last winter. I now find that small growing Iris of any species are yet another obsession! ::)
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One I forgot to share is Iris taurica bought in the Czech Republic. From one flowering nose to three this year
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Does anyone know the name of this dwarf Iris. It is about 6" in height and clumps profusely.
I bought it at an SRGC show about 10 years ago from the members plant sale and it was unnamed
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Tom, it looks like a beardless Pacific Coast hybrid, possibly a Broadleigh hybrid. Broadleigh Ann?
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One from the garden today-Iris sibirica 'Perry's Blue'
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Some Iris, but not mine. I only know I. elegantissima
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Blue is the right word David !!
Hans, what a lot of diversity in the flowers : beautiful
Thanks
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very nice especially the stripey I. sprengeri
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very nice especially the stripey I. sprengeri
Do you mean the first one? Isn't it I acutiloba lineolata??
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Hello,
Very beautiful Iris, specially to me, the Oncos.
Johannes, are I. elegantissima and I. lineolata from Josef Mayr?
Here an Iris paradoxa
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Iris Darbanus (korolkovi X iberica) just before the wind broke the flowering stems :(
Grown outside with no special treatment.
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Interesting name Susan. ::) Not sure it's a plant that I'd want to grow? ???
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Never noticed it was named after you, pity you don't like it ???.
Thought I would try this hybrid first to see how it does up here, as it is meant to be tough one. Since it has done so well I think I wll try some of the species working up to the lovely white and brown I. elegantissima! Not sure wether to leave it in the ground or lift it and bake it as is usually suggested. Only bought it last Autumn, so this years flowers are not really of my making :-\ . I am just happy not to have killed it.
Also have a small plant of I. sari sitting in a pot waiting for a decision.
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'waiting for a decision'
I like that phrase, Susan.
We have loads of pots waiting for a decision; even more soon as I continue potting on.
Have to make a resolution not to buy anything at Gardening Scotland :o. Some hope.
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Well you can make that resolution - but don't expect me to take any notice of it :D
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When Pavel Krivka (co-autor of The Caucasus and its Flowers) was with us, he showed us slides of Iris lineolata growing and flowering without any protection among his strawberries.
He gave me a small plant and it increases and flowers now in the second year, I just gave it a good drainage and a situation near a
conifer which creates a rather dry condition; during the growing season additional watering and fertilizing is much apreciated.
In my opinion this plant is the easiest of all the onco's
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One of the most beautiful as well. Would love to try it.
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I didn't say I didn't like it, but, as the name suggests, I'd probably make an a**e of growing it? ::)
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Iris reticulata Cantab
If you buy cheap bulbs you can expect surprises, some very pleasant ones, too.
This is obviously not Cantab as I took the picture an hour ago, mid June.
It is a bulbus Dutch iris about 18 inches tall.
I will happily put it in the garden without a name, but does anyone recognise it? Maybe it is a brand new, secret variety and the bulbs are worth £50 each!
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A couple of Irises now in flower. The purple one, I think, is an Iris ensata but the label disappeared a couple of years ago thanks to over zealous Blackbirds.
The other is Iris ensata "Kogesho". This has been kept in a pot, out of the wind, so that the flowers survive more than a day.
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Iris reticulata Cantab
I will happily put it in the garden without a name, but does anyone recognise it? Maybe it is a brand new, secret variety and the bulbs are worth £50 each!
Are you looking for a name David? I can suggest 'David's Pension'!! ;D
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Like that, David!
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Sorry to tell you, David,
that it looks like what is in the trade here as "Bronze beauty" or some such nonsense! It appears to be half way between the usual blues and yellows and the good chocolate brown types. I think it may be useful for breeding with the browns to get some different shades.
The pictures on the packets of "Mixed Dutch Iris" always used to show a brown one but after buying them on and off fro 20 years the results were always the blues and yellows and an occasional white. I presumed that the sellers just used pictures that came from overseas and that we didn't have any of the true brown ones in Australia.
About 5 years ago a nurseryman friend gave me some bulblets of "Thunderbolt" which is yellow in the bud but opens a chocolatety brown. If I ever get my act together I may get around to crossing this one with some of the others, but it is a late flowerer and I think last year there were no other Dutch Iris around when it bloomed ( it was a bad year for them last year due to a drought in the growing season).
cheers
fermi
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Better put my tie on and head for the office then. Shame.
Maybe next time :D
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I bought this [ Iris ensata 'Laughing Lion'] a couple of weeks ago at the Torwood Garden Centre (Chip Lima). The pic was taken on 16 June, but another flower has opened today. I like it.