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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2013, 09:56:50 PM »
OK Hans I want to know exactly how you got grant-duffii to flower. While my plant is dormant I can move it to the better position. Grown from seed more years ago than I care to check.

Hi Pat, it is really a slow species, here it grows in full sun on heavy clay next to the drainage of my garden - in Winter it has a lot of water but is totally dry in summer. I feed it moderatly with fertilizers low in Nitrogen. So far only one plant is flowering with one flower - hope other will follow next year.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2013, 06:38:22 AM »
Thanks Hans for your cultural tips for grant-duffii.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 01:06:06 PM »
Iris lusitanica (Spanish Iris) is in flower with beautiful yellow flower.
obviously I recieved it from Spain ;) Many thanks
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« Last Edit: April 01, 2013, 02:31:57 PM by Miriam »
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2013, 08:44:53 PM »
It has indeed been a good (and long) season here for I.unguicularis.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2013, 09:34:22 AM »
I agree JRC, I noticed a flower on mine yesterday and if others develop it will be the third flush of the season.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2013, 02:37:41 PM »
Also a rather good show in Austria:
I. unguicularis cretica
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2013, 06:54:55 PM »
Iris cretensis. This plant just surprises me each year - one minute no sign of flowers and the next..................
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2013, 06:36:40 AM »
Heavens!!! Why won't mine do that? I have a grudging flower or maybe two, each year - if I'm lucky! >:(
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2013, 10:47:23 AM »
Lesley
I read that cutting the foliage in mid summer(here in July) encourages flowering the next year,but i never tried it myself as unfortunately i don't have the plant ;I grow only the tall unguicularis.
May be it is worth a try?

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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2013, 03:41:29 PM »
Iris prismatica from the garden today, from seed sown September 2009 and flowering for the first time. Quite a raggedy clump and the pictures aren't very good, sorry.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2013, 06:20:23 PM »
Iris prismatica from the garden today, from seed sown September 2009 and flowering for the first time. Quite a raggedy clump and the pictures aren't very good, sorry.
It looks like a beautiful white iris but I'm not sure that it's I. prismatica. Maybe a PCI?
Do you think it might set seed?  ;D
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2013, 07:03:31 PM »
Thanks Fermi, I was not sure, indeed until I took the label out to photograph it today I'd thought it was innominata. The clump averages around 30cm in height and the flower stems just a little bit more than that. The seed was from the SRGC exchange 08/09-1998. If it sets seed I'll send them to you.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2013, 10:56:12 PM »
Yes the foliage reminds me of innominata David, which is coming into flower here too, but any I've seen had more streaky falls :-\
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2013, 12:44:43 AM »
Thanks John, maybe I'll try that. I thought it was just that my (previous) garden wasn't hot enough for the rhizomes to get a good summer ripening but with all due respect, it was probably warmer and drier than both Ian's and maybe Pauli's too. Perhaps not the latter. I've heard that cutting the foliage back of I. unguicularis encourages a good flowering but it has always seemed to me to be counter-productive in that the plant needs its foliage for nutrition. I could never bring myself to cut back the leaves of reticulatas or of Narcissus vars, as some people do, because they deem them untidy.
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Re: Irises: Non-Bearded 2013
« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2013, 01:04:04 AM »
I have to agree re the Iris prismatica above. It isn't, sorry, definitely a PCI but not straight innominata, maybe a hybrid with tenax/douglasiana blood. Is there a little pinkness at the base of the leaves David? A sure sign of douglasiana in the strain. Whatever, it looks nice. Prismatica is a lovely thing if you can get the right plant and does have a lovely creamy-white form as well. It is upright with fine (ish), slightly glaucous foliage and loves a wet place. Both forms are grown here though I've not had seed on mine.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

 


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