Iris non-bearded 2017

[arilnut]

I have I. henryi blooming now.  didn't know it could rebloom.

John B

[johnralphcarpenter]

Iris unguicularis season has started here in Kent.

[David Nicholson]

Iris unguicularis season has started here in Kent.

...... but not yet in Devon. Raise you a pot of Polyxena longituba

[Lesley Cox]

David, I had an email from you a while ago - few weeks? - and replied to it but now I'm wondering if it reached you because I can't find it it my sent messages box and I don't think it was a PM on the Forum. My life seems to have gone to the dogs recently, so I'll find yours, I hope, and reply again and see what happens.

Sorry,
Lesley

[David Nicholson]

David, I had an email from you a while ago - few weeks? - and replied to it but now I'm wondering if it reached you because I can't find it it my sent messages box and I don't think it was a PM on the Forum. My life seems to have gone to the dogs recently, so I'll find yours, I hope, and reply again and see what happens.

Sorry,
Lesley

Lesley,

will PM you later .

[johnralphcarpenter]

Earlier than usual, Iris unguicularis 'Abington Purple'.



Can't get the colour rendition right - it's much more purple than this.

[Brian Ellis]

Earlier than usual, Iris unguicularis 'Abington Purple'.

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Can't get the colour rendition right - it's much more purple than this.

...and fragrant?  From the garden of Rev Richard Blakeway-Phillips originally.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes, all I. unguicularis are fragrant.

[David Nicholson]

Mine is out today, long lost label but perhaps Iris unguicularis 'Mary Barnard'

[fermi de Sousa]

We've had enough moisture in spring this year to allow the Louisiana Iris to develop some flower stems.
I think this one is Iris 'Dural White Butterfly'
cheers
fermi

[GordonT]

Fermi, that is quite an elegant display! Do you have many Louisiana Iris? I may still have 'Black Gamecock', but not sure. Plenty of rain falling here at the moment. I have to get a few pots in the ground before our winter sets in (seedlings of Pacific Coast Iris 'Deepening Shadows' and ' Canyon Snow' x 'Blue Melody')

[Leena]

I sent seeds of Iris versicolor 'Between the Line' to the seed exchange. Here is a picture of it, very floriferous and produced a lot of seeds, too.
I also sent some seeds to the seed ex from Iris versicolor x laevigata 'Fourfold Blue', in the foreground in the third picture.

[Gail]

Lovely pictures Leena, it's nice to see a flash of summer on a November day. I like the combination of the blue iris with the geranium - good peony too, is that 'Red Charm'?

[Leena]

Thank you Gail, I like that combination, too.
Yes, peony is 'Red Charm'!  It is a very nice peony.  Last June was quite dry and it was better than never before.
The one on the right just opening is 'Coral Sunset'.

[Lesley Cox]

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. I'll plant them out in a row shortly until they flower then find places in the garden. I hope I thanked you at the time, but certainly do so now. It is the middle of our iris season now, with most of my bearded forms just finishing but the (preferred) species coming into full flower. The Sibiricae and Ensatae sections are particularly good following a very wet spring.