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Iris and some Irids 2008
« on: February 07, 2008, 06:53:07 PM »
Here's a picture of my Iris lazica still sending up flowering stems albeit a single stem at a time. I posted the first one on 4 December. Now why can't I get my Iris uguicularis to flower? :( :(

 
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2008, 08:45:37 PM »
David, what a stunning flower, and doing so well for you.
As to your Iris unguicularis.... why should yours flower for you, mine never flowers for me?
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2008, 09:44:34 PM »
My I. unguicularis wouldn't flower until I totally neglected and ignored it and had weeds growing up, over and through it. THEN it started to bloom and still does each year, still covered in other rubbish and thriving apparently on being treated with contempt. It's never watered or given any love or affection whatsoever, which is odd as I do, in fact, love it very much indeed.
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2008, 08:32:42 AM »
Our I unguicularis has also failed to flower this winter.Could ir be that it likes a hot, dry summer?
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2008, 12:10:36 AM »
It certainly does. Maybe not the easiest thing to provide in north-east Scotland? :)

And although it always looks shabby, it DOES NOT like to have its old leaves removed. Many people cut them back on the premise that the rhizomes, thus exposed to the sun, will enjoy the baking but the plants doesn't appreciate the shearing at all.
« Last Edit: February 09, 2008, 12:12:39 AM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2008, 10:09:14 AM »
The patches of Iris unguicularis that have done really well are those in the full sun that get backed ... uhm but one patch has a huge rock on the western )setting sun) side. I might cut the tops back but only by a third to a half but I usually don't do a thing and they flower well. The might get some extra water if they are lucky. The best patch is just behind the large patch of Urginia maritima.
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2008, 02:07:49 PM »
Many Plants are flowering out of time and much earlier than normal - so this yellow Iris suaveolens the violet form flowerd here  in january. ::)



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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2008, 03:09:36 PM »
 A really nice form Hans !
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2008, 06:16:39 PM »
Hans, very lovely!
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2008, 10:56:35 AM »
Here are two more photographed near Deskati in northern Greece
 
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 08:20:11 PM »
now in flower-indoor
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2008, 08:50:54 PM »
now in flower-indoor

Lovely, but why indoors Gerhard?
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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2008, 09:56:19 AM »
I would be most grateful for any recommendations for books on irises - varieties and/or cultivation.

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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2008, 04:34:44 PM »
I would be most grateful for any recommendations for books on irises - varieties and/or cultivation.
Chloë
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Chloe,
there is ' Iris ' from Fritz Köhlein - 1981 Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart

unfortunately in German - maybe there is an English version published later?

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Re: Iris and some Irids 2008
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2008, 05:19:00 PM »
Chloe - another very good book is "The Iris"- author Brian Mathew - this is also a bit older ( 2. edition 1991?), it is more detailed than  Köhleins book - and easier to obtain.
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