Reticulate Iris - 2014

[udo]

Dirk i'm surprise you grow this species in a compost made of turf (seeing photo make me thinking of klassman or brill mix).
Anyway superb specie of reticulata.

Yann,
Reticulate Iris are to be got in pots only quite hardly big, with some humus substrate it is rather possible. I do not want to eat also only dry bread, there butter and sausage hears on it. And why should it go for my plants worse?

[Maggi Young]

Yann,
Reticulate Iris are to be got in pots only quite hardly big, with some humus substrate it is rather possible. I do not want to eat also only dry bread, there butter and sausage hears on it. And why should it go for my plants worse?

   So, do you also give them cognac and cigars, Dirk? 

[Yann]

  i've never tried reticulta in such substrat, i've a bag full of Klassman mix will try to grow roots in it.

[udo]

   So, do you also give them cognac and cigars, Dirk? 

Maggi,
One could try this at Christmas sometimes.
Maybe again other colourings originate in the flower.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi,
One could try this at Christmas sometimes.
Maybe again other colourings originate in the flower.

    Could be an interesting experiment, Dirk! 

[Oron Peri]

Iris vartanii is starting to flower here, as it had lots of rain leaves grow fast.

[ashley]

What a wonderful sight.

[mark smyth]

Iris vartanii is starting to flower here, as it had lots of rain leaves grow fast.

wow its a beauty

[Oron Peri]

Thanks Ashley and Mark

[udo]

Iris vartanii is starting to flower here, as it had lots of rain leaves grow fast.

Oron,
just fantastically this amount of Iris vartanii.
Is this one clone?

[Oron Peri]

Oron,
just fantastically this amount of Iris vartanii.
Is this one clone?

Hi Dirk, these are different clones, all grown together.

Here are two special forms of I. vartanii in flower today

[udo]

Hi Dirk, these are different clones, all grown together.

Here are two special forms of I. vartanii in flower today

Hi Oron,
many thanks, there I wish a good seed harvests.

[art600]

Iris vartanii is starting to flower here, as it had lots of rain leaves grow fast.

Oron

Do the leaves normally outgrow the flowers?  I like Iris zagrica, but the leaves spoil the plant when the flowers are at their best by being so tall.

Arthur

[Oron Peri]

Oron

Do the leaves normally outgrow the flowers?  I like Iris zagrica, but the leaves spoil the plant when the flowers are at their best by being so tall.

Arthur

Art,

Flowers and leaves appear together, usually flowers are above the leaves at this stage [probably to clear the way for pollinators] than the leaves grow rapidly, particularly if they get good rains like this season.