Reticulate Iris 2009

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David

My danfordiae have not shown yet - have not given up hope yet

[Anthony Darby]

David, Alan McMurtrie's Iris bakeriana is sumptuous. This and 'Clairette' are two I will make a note of.

[Lesley Cox]

The deeper you plant I. danfordiae, the later it will come up. Will you still be offering 100GBP in a couple of weeks?

[David Shaw]

I have just been out and taken these two pictures of Iris danfordiae especially for David

[tonyg]

David
Thanks for contacting Alan M. all very interesting and informative.  From the picture you posted of Iris bakeriana it is easy to see that Clairette has this as a parent.  Overall colour and falls markings are quite similar.

[David Nicholson]

Last year MB sent out something different as Iris bakeriana.  It looked a lot closer to the real thing!
This is last years pic but they're just opening now and have increased nicely.

   
  Tony , your photo looks very much like I. ret. 'Clairette' which I have grown for decades ,
it is an old I. ret. x bakeriana cross, and has 6-8 ribbed leaves ., and also similar to
 the other cross I. ret. 'Springtime'   

Otto, I hope you still following this thread. Do you have a picture please of the Iris retic. 'Clairette' that you are growing?

[David Nicholson]

I have just been out and taken these two pictures of Iris danfordiae especially for David

Thanks David. Are you, by any chance, offering £100 to anyone spotting Iris danfordiae in one of your pots?

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks from me David, for the lower picture at least. Mine (bought last year) looked like that last spring, 6 months ago. I tipped out the pots the other day thinking to plant them in the garden and found them there OK but inside each tunic were 5 or 6 tiny, thin slivers of bulb material. I don't expect any flowers this coming spring.

I bought 2 new packets of 5 each on Friday and of the 10 bulbs, only 1 wasn't already split in half. These are recently imported from Holland, where they have been held out of the ground since the northern summer, and they have virtually no substance at all. Not only that, they are all side bulbs, rounded one side, flattened on the other. Dead loss really, I should have had more sense. 

[David Shaw]

Lesley, if you are refering to my post (one David too many, I know) then remember that this picture was taken at about 8.30 in the morning and that the pots have been under fleece in freezing temperatures for a week. I would hope, and expect, that with some warmer weather and sunshine they will open up properly. The danfordiae in the smaller pot are bulbs bought three years ago and regular flowerers.

[Maggi Young]

Photos just in from Jim Kee in Delaware of his two forms of Iris histrio

first a clump, then a closeup of one from that clump, then thirdly, the second form......

click the pix to enlarge!

[Armin]

Wow

[Lesley Cox]

Yes it was your post David (S) but I wasn't referring to the fact they were closed up but that you had a good flowering at all, as I did last year but certainly won't this year.

Talking of fleece, I'll be able to show Forumists a new family member in a few days.

[Anthony Darby]

Somebody been at the sheep again Lesley?

[David Nicholson]

I rescued this little Iris reticulata from my frame this morning whilst it was being subjected to a thorough seeing too from two bumble bees, and judging by the state of the flower it had been going on for some time. This is one I got from Dirk and I am not sure if he was simply noting that it was collected from Sewan Lake, or if he had named it as such.

[Lesley Cox]

Be patient Anthony