Iris non-bearded 2017

[Lesley Cox]

I'll look for these irises as well when the seedlist is ready. Won't be long now.

[Maggi Young]

SRGC Seedlist should be  being posted out and online around the beginning of December, all being well, I'm told.

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Maggi. Plenty to do including other seeds to sow, before then. There used to be a seed season but nowadays it seems there is seed arriving all year round, from many different places. I never quite catch up!

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Maggi, we were also trying to find a date for the release of the seedlist!
Here are a few more iris in flower:
1) a pink Louisiana hybrid
2) Iris spuria which maybe be ssp halophila
3) the Spuria Iris bed
4) Iris 'Golden Lady'
cheers
fermi

[GordonT]

Plenty to do including other seeds to sow, before then. There used to be a seed season but nowadays it seems there is seed arriving all year round, from many different places. I never quite catch up!

Lesley, speaking of seeds, did you receive my pm about Iris setosa hookeri seed (and others). I would like to send you something as a thank you for the Arisaema nepenthoides seeds you posted to me earlier this year.

[Leena]

Fermi, very nice I.spurias. I have some seedlings of I.spuria, but they were still too small to flower last summer.

Leena you have some beautiful irises.
You may remember sending me seed early last year of I. bulleyana and also from a Tamberg Siberian form, called (in English) 'Siberian Spring.' You'll be pleased to know these both germinated well and are now up and flourishing for the the second time.

Thank you Lesley! I'm glad to hear they had germinated and you have seedlings now. The Meconopsis you sent me had also germinated and they are now outside, hopefully survive the winter.

Here is a picture of that Tamberg's iris ('Sibirische Fruhling'). It gets sunshine only in the morning, I should move it to someplace more sunny.

[Leena]

Some more of my irises. I have grown this one from seeds about ten years ago. I bought the seeds as Iris chrysographes, but the seedlings turned out to be I.sibirica. I planted one of them in the garden, and it is a very good plant. Early and very vigorous, and though the flowers are small, there are a lot of them.

[Leena]

Some more.
Iris 'Sibtosa Queen' seems to be sterile,
and I haven't gotten any seeds from 'Sibtosa Wein' either. In the background of the third picture is Iris sibirica 'Kleiner Schmetterling', very nice, and here it is also on the fourth picture.
The fifth picture is of 'Ruffled Velvet', which seems also to be sterile, and it is not so tall as the other irises.

[Leena]

Last summer was very good for my irises.
In the last picture in the left there is 'Butterfly Fountain', and beside it in the middle 'White Swirl'. In the background there is my blue tall sibirica seedling which I showed earlier. Iris in the right is bearded iris 'Flavescens'

[Maggi Young]

Last summer was very good for my irises.

So it seems, by these photos!

[ashley]

Beautiful irises and garden Leena, and these photos are especially nice to see as we head into NH winter.

[Leena]

Thank you Maggi and Ashley. 
Looking at spring and summer pictures helps getting through winter.

[GordonT]

For those of you who are interested in Pacific Coast Iris, the Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris 2017-18 seed exchange has gone live. It can be found here: http://www.pacificcoastiris.org/spcni_seedexchange.html