Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: Yann on March 02, 2020, 08:12:43 PM
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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.
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Emma
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A scented Lilac
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My favorite Blue Bird
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Ceejay
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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?
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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.
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Thank you, Yann.
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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....
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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.
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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)
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Iris pumila cultivars 'Royal Wonder' and 'Wild Whispers' today
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Iris pumila 'Little Drummer Boy'
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Iris pumila, raised from seed collected in the Kecske-Hegy Mts, Hungary. Very diminutive. About 7 cm in height.
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Terrific, Tom - some of these little guys couldn't be any smaller could they? Very attractive!
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My Iris pumila planters in full bloom this morning
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Iris pumila 'Hobbit'
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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
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I really should get some of these, lovely.
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Just one addition here
Iris pumila
Gerd
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A yellow form an a dark blue form of Iris pumila both from Armenia
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Iris pumila bicolor
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Iris attica from Greece
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A pot of iris Attica (?) - about 10 cm high
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I have never seen such beauties!
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Indian Chief
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Tickled Peach
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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)
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Amazing bearded irises, so different from all those I have seen .. This is a quaint and specialist forum.
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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.
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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 ;)
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Iris sambucina, an easy one to please with a good drainage
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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
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We got this Iris chamaeiris syn lutescens at our AGS Vic group "Bunfight" or Plant Exchange nearly 3 years ago
cheers
fermi
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Iris 'Satan's Mistress' a gift from Otto a few years ago
cheers
fermi
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Quick question, if I may... is it still an acceptable time of year in the UK to be transplanting garden bearded irises please? :)
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An unlabelled maroon DBI in the rock garden
cheers
fermi
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DBI 'Toy Clown'
cheers
fermi
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DBI 'Olives & Umber'
DBI 'Smooch'
DBI 'Tarheel Elf'
cheers
fermi
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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.
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DBI 'Raspberry Jam'
DBI 'Making Eyes'
DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
cheers
fermi
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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
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MBI 'Blue Flirt' has done well this year
cheers
fermi
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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
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More pics of the iris in the 'Horseshoe Iris Bed'
cheers
fermi
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TBI two-tone purple-mauve similar to 'Crusader' (Foster, 1913) https://www.historiciris.org/listings/crusader/ (https://www.historiciris.org/listings/crusader/)
cheers
fermi
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Hallo Fermi,
I like your Iris collection especial the old cultivars. :)