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David Nicholson

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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #30 on: January 22, 2008, 09:33:28 PM »
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Don't panic, David, sit down and have some wensleydale and cake... you know it makes sense.

Can't do with cheese at this time of night Maggi (it's an age and digestion thing!) BUT I am popping out for a quick pint. Night Night
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #31 on: January 24, 2008, 06:02:51 PM »
my first Iris reticulata in this year,
a form from Iran, growing in higher altitute ( around 2300m )
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #32 on: January 24, 2008, 09:10:12 PM »
That is a pretty one, Dirk.
« Last Edit: January 24, 2008, 11:31:34 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #33 on: January 24, 2008, 09:29:58 PM »
Nice day today with a bit of sunshine for a change, and chance to take a few pix.

The first couple showing Iris reticulata J S Dijt in the bulb bed-I like the nice strong colour. The third is I. retic. Pauline, again a nice strong colour, brought into the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago. The final ones are Katharine Hodgkin, again brought into the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago and about a week in front of those in the bulb bed. I always find her colour a bit wishy-washy, maybe I don't grow her well!!

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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2008, 11:32:44 PM »
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I always find her colour a bit wishy-washy, maybe I don't grow her well!!

No, David, bless her, she always looks like that!
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2008, 08:20:45 AM »
I wouldn't call her wishy-washy David - maybe "modest" sounds better  ;)

Anyway, wishwashy would be better than tatty...  ;D
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2008, 09:40:31 AM »
OK Luc, I will go for 'modest' ;D
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2008, 11:50:53 AM »
this is a tiny reticulata collected in Iran by JJMZ and I wonder if it is the same collection as Dirks
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2008, 12:25:03 PM »
Quote from: Tony Willis on January 25, 2008, 11:50:53 AM
this is a tiny reticulata collected in Iran by JJMZ and I wonder if it is the same collection as Dirks

Did you grow it from seed Tony, and is the seed available in the market place?
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2008, 01:46:57 PM »
Dry again today (two days running-this must be a record!) so a chance to take a couple more pictures.

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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #40 on: January 26, 2008, 12:25:34 AM »
Now there is a coincidence...... this week I ordered mail order an iris retic called 'Edward', never having heard of one by that name before anywhere in my travels.  And here we have a picture provided by David.  Thanks for anticipating my need to find out what it was like.  Looks rather similar to some other varieties doesn't it?
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #41 on: January 26, 2008, 09:41:12 AM »
Quote from: tyerman on January 26, 2008, 12:25:34 AM
Now there is a coincidence...... this week I ordered mail order an iris retic called 'Edward', never having heard of one by that name before anywhere in my travels.  And here we have a picture provided by David.  Thanks for anticipating my need to find out what it was like.  Looks rather similar to some other varieties doesn't it?

Paul, it's just a gift I have, should have been a fortune teller ;D
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2008, 12:02:06 PM »
Ah, but if you really WERE supposed to be a fortune teller then you would have KNOWN that and become one.  The fact that you didn't means that you didn't know for sure that you should have been, so therefore you couldn't have.  Clear as mud now?

Thanks for the excellent timing of the pic, regardless of fortune teller possibilities or not!!  ;D
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #43 on: January 26, 2008, 07:07:34 PM »
Paul, I'm different though. I'm a procrastinating fortune teller 8)
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Re: Iris reticulata and forms
« Reply #44 on: January 26, 2008, 10:14:49 PM »
David - Cantab should be 'Cambridge Blue' ie light blue ... your pics appear to be more Oxford than Cambridge. Perhaps it is just a trick of the light and the camera but it should be really quite pale, quite different to the other one you showed us in the same post.  Sadly although I once grew it I do not have a digi-pic to post.
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