Juno (Scorpiris) season 2012

[Oron Peri]

Ron,
Distances are always in meters, and in some areas douzens of meters.
I think it would be easier to calculate it on how many plants per a 100 square meters....

[ronm]

Wow! I am ignorant about this environment. Is the seed distribution agent known?

[Oron Peri]

Wow! I am ignorant about this environment. Is the seed distribution agent known?

I suspect it is the rain, as when it rains water do not absorb quickly in this kind of soil [mostley Loess soil] and just run on surface.
Any way not ants  as plants do not grow in crevices etc.

[ronm]

Amazing, I'd love to know more. Always I get few seed set in cultivation. no matter how much pollen I transfer with brush. Who is pollinator in this dry environment? Many seeds per plant per year? Then distribution is tricky? You may have answered one of my main questions regarding these plants. When growing 'adults' we must keep them dry for long periods? But seedlings need slightly more moisture to survive? Why ... if they grow with adults? Maybe they dont ... they are washed into local depressions which remain damper for slightly longer than the area the adults are in? Next year the run off areas are different.. so plants spread? Just a theory, is it a very poor one / wrong please to those who know better?

[BULBISSIME]

No picnic picture as no Logistic woman with us  
But as Oron spend less time to eat, he worked more  

Sorry for the lines oron, I'm only photographer.... not a magician  


Iris edomensis

[ronm]

Lovely Fred. The pictures give a great feel of the environment.

[Janis Ruksans]

No picnic picture as no Logistic woman with us  
But as Oron spend less time to eat, he worked more  

Sorry for the lines oron, I'm only photographer.... not a magician  

Phantastic plants and pictures. Pity - edomensis isn't growable here.
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning pictures Oron and Fred !!!! Amazing plants !

Ron, I love your I. svetlanae !!!

[ronm]

Thank you Luc. I think that this could well be the most 'normal' of the three. Of the others, one has really curled up tight leaves and the other has very short squat leaves. I think I'm not going to see the flowers until next year however.
The plants from my original pollinations are at or nearing flowering size this year so, I have my fingers crossed for something nice to turn up.
I guess the thing is that unless you want to sell your 'new' plants, then the beauty is that each seedling is unique, and  ( beauty is in the eye of the beholder ), therefore equally valuable in the scheme of life.

[ian mcenery]

The last one is Wonderful photo and plant. Love the foliage too. Envy Envy

[Hans A.]

  Oron and Fred !!!
Thanks a lot for showing this breathtaking pictures of Iris edomensis! - think it is one of the holy grail iris for all Juno growers - unfortunately it should be one of the most difficult to grow!

Here two pictures from the garden taken today, Iris persica and Iris stenophylla var. alisonii.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I'm running out of smiley's here Hans ! 
B e a u t i f u l !!

[arillady]

Oron and Fred and Hans and Ron,
This is where I need to make the whole screen green but failing that a
thank you will have to suffice
The wealth of plants and designs of plant flowers and forms is utterly amazing in the drier areas.

[BULBISSIME]

Superb Hans !!!
no damage in the garden after freezing time ??

[Hans A.]

Thanks Luc, Pat and Fred!
Fortunately damages of freezing are not very important - mainly leaves of a few Canary Island plants and a few Cyclamen persicum (C. rohlfsianum are all fine) suffered, unfortunately also some of small seedlings from Iris edomensis and regis-uzziae. All other Iris seedlings are ok.