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Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: Yann on March 02, 2020, 08:12:43 PM

Title: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Yann on March 02, 2020, 08:12:43 PM
while waiting my plane i'm sorting photos and found somes i forgot to post

Iris lutescens giving non stop flowers for 2 weeks
Iris pumila is a bit shy this year, anyway i like this form.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: WSGR on March 03, 2020, 07:16:37 AM
Emma
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A scented Lilac
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My favorite Blue Bird

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Ceejay
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Leena on March 03, 2020, 08:10:52 AM
Iris lutescens giving non stop flowers for 2 weeks
Iris pumila is a bit shy this year, anyway i like this form.

Very nice small irises. Do you grow them only in pots or can they be grown in the ground, too?
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Yann on March 03, 2020, 08:41:44 PM
both needs very good drainage in my loamy soil.
pumila doesn't grow well in my garden, the clumps reduce of size year after year, this opposite as the ones grown in the greenhouse.
lutescens is less demanding, i've a lot of forms growing outside but those under glass are protected from slugs attacks and have better colors. In the wild they withstand heavy winter rains for 5-7 weeks but they grow in very rocky lands.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Leena on March 04, 2020, 11:17:31 AM
Thank you, Yann.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Karaba on March 04, 2020, 04:59:39 PM
Yes, slugs is a real problem for the flower. I always have to wait the full blooming of my patch to see some flowers because, at the beginning, all are eaten....
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Rob-Rah on March 16, 2020, 11:23:03 AM
This is Iris attica which flowers at around this time each year. It likes to get a completely dry summer period in sunshine. Many leaves die back and you think it's too hard.... but the plant appreciates it. Mine is in a rather chunky, rocky mix.

I would love a bicolor version of this (and are there hybrids with Onco group and this species?) but the yellow is very nice too, and I like the neat leaf habit.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on March 16, 2020, 12:27:13 PM
This presentation, from Tom Waters, given to the Santa Fe Iris Society in February 2020, presents the miniature dwarf bearded (MDB) irises and groups them into three types according to parentage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6Hx3TUK7A&fbclid=IwAR2OAF0mQkGWtaqCqvQmpP5UheipC9kL_8uY3Dm9pVZ0uH5lcbLduJOSe7s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6Hx3TUK7A&fbclid=IwAR2OAF0mQkGWtaqCqvQmpP5UheipC9kL_8uY3Dm9pVZ0uH5lcbLduJOSe7s)
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Tom Waters on March 30, 2020, 06:49:54 PM
Iris pumila cultivars 'Royal Wonder' and 'Wild Whispers' today
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Tom Waters on March 30, 2020, 06:51:11 PM
Iris pumila 'Little Drummer Boy'
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Tom Waters on April 01, 2020, 10:38:34 PM
Iris pumila, raised from seed collected in the Kecske-Hegy Mts, Hungary. Very diminutive. About 7 cm in height.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on April 02, 2020, 11:17:24 AM
Terrific, Tom -  some  of these  little guys couldn't  be  any  smaller  could they?  Very  attractive!
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Tom Waters on April 02, 2020, 07:21:01 PM
My Iris pumila planters in full bloom this morning
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Tom Waters on April 02, 2020, 07:22:14 PM
Iris pumila 'Hobbit'
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on April 03, 2020, 08:26:51 AM
What a myriad of gorgeous little Iris' - they're also among my favourite plants.

Iris attica (one that Yann might recognize  ;D ;D)

Iris attica RRW (photos 2 and 3) with a dark silky fall and a nicely contrasting pale blue beard.

Iris pumila atroviolacea

Iris taurica which had its flowers batterd by cold and strong Northeast winds earlier this week
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on April 03, 2020, 09:21:20 AM
I really should get some of these, lovely.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Gerdk on April 13, 2020, 01:03:13 PM
Just one addition here

Iris pumila

Gerd
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: LucS on April 13, 2020, 03:19:02 PM
A yellow form an a dark blue form of Iris pumila both from Armenia
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: LucS on April 13, 2020, 03:27:22 PM
Iris pumila bicolor
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: LucS on April 13, 2020, 03:29:06 PM
Iris attica from Greece
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: PaulFlowers on April 26, 2020, 07:06:36 AM
A pot of iris Attica (?) - about 10 cm high
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: WSGR on April 26, 2020, 09:10:58 AM
I have never seen such beauties!

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Indian Chief
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Tickled Peach
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Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Steve Garvie on April 30, 2020, 07:49:54 PM
Iris reichenbachii
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49838182752_ce626a53b2_o_d.jpg)


Iris pumila
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49769273112_119b3ddf17_o_d.jpg)


Iris pumila
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49768949321_0945e9cc18_o_d.jpg)


Iris suaveolens
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49769273232_84415cf204_o_d.jpg)


Iris schachtii
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49838177447_c005447e51_o_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: WSGR on May 01, 2020, 05:20:34 AM
Amazing bearded irises, so different from all those I have seen .. This is a quaint and specialist forum.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Yann on May 01, 2020, 10:52:34 PM
Great to see so many variations of attica and pumila. This year i'd several pumila in the garden who didn't bloom because of heavy winter rains, in my clay soil they need a glass protection which i forgot to put. Those in the greenhouse bloomed profusely.
At the opposite attica like moisture, clay and limestone. Iris schachtii grow mainly over deep gneiss layers and prefer PH 6.2-6.7.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on May 07, 2020, 03:12:01 PM


Just an I. pumila flowering first time, not as teeny-wee like parvula, but I'm quite taken with it. I must try better pictures :)


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 post moved from the  Juno iris section  ;)
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Yann on May 08, 2020, 09:53:28 PM
Iris sambucina, an easy one to please with a good drainage

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Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on May 09, 2020, 05:30:47 AM
Ian,
my little irises outside have not bloomed here either (we live close to each other) and yet I had put their plexiglass roof on them ...
 they only start to make leaves right now. and I lost I. pumila  :-\.. and maybe others (mice or rats?, I have this problem this year)
Iris sambucina is interesting.

Can someone tell me the needs of Iris scariosa, I have 2 young seedlings, but I don't understand their growing season, and I can't find their growing conditions.

a little late because it is faded now: Iris lutescens
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 04, 2020, 03:29:13 PM
We got this Iris chamaeiris syn lutescens at our AGS Vic group "Bunfight" or Plant Exchange nearly 3 years ago
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 17, 2020, 04:05:17 PM
Iris 'Satan's Mistress' a gift from Otto a few years ago
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Rob-Rah on September 18, 2020, 01:33:43 PM
Quick question, if I may... is it still an acceptable time of year in the UK to be transplanting garden bearded irises please? :)
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 02:26:52 AM
An unlabelled maroon DBI in the rock garden
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 02:32:27 AM
DBI 'Toy Clown'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 04:36:07 AM
DBI 'Olives & Umber'
DBI 'Smooch'
DBI 'Tarheel Elf'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on September 30, 2020, 11:59:52 AM
Quick question, if I may... is it still an acceptable time of year in the UK to be transplanting garden bearded irises please? :)

I can't  advise  properly, Bart, since  I don't  grow  any  of these   - but  my  feeling is that it  is a  bit  late - unless you  were to get  a  prolonged  warmer  spell to let  them make  some  new  roots  before  winter - and  wherever  you  are  in the  UK, that seems  a  bit  unlikely.    Hope  someone  with  more  experience of them in the  UK   can help out.
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 03:26:00 PM
DBI 'Raspberry Jam'
DBI 'Making Eyes'
DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on September 30, 2020, 06:04:09 PM
I prefer to transplant in the spring, so that they have time to take root before winter.
 that said, I have always had losses when transplanting iris seedlings ...
 I tell myself that for each species, you have to watch for the moment when it starts their new shoots with new roots.
but I am not an expert ...

I am still searching
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 13, 2020, 02:49:30 PM
MBI 'Blue Flirt' has done well this year
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 24, 2020, 02:45:09 PM
TBI 'Amassadeur' or 'Alcazar' or 'Bruno'?
I was convinced that this was 'Ambassadeur' but recently saw a pic of Bruno https://www.historiciris.org/listings/bruno/ (https://www.historiciris.org/listings/bruno/)
and now I'm not so sure! :-\
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 25, 2020, 05:12:03 AM
More pics of the iris in the 'Horseshoe Iris Bed'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 02, 2020, 09:01:55 AM
TBI two-tone purple-mauve similar to 'Crusader' (Foster, 1913) https://www.historiciris.org/listings/crusader/ (https://www.historiciris.org/listings/crusader/)
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Iris bearded 2020
Post by: Armin on November 02, 2020, 12:30:08 PM
Hallo Fermi,
I like your Iris collection especial the old cultivars. :)
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