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Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: Yann on January 10, 2015, 12:36:04 PM
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Iris reticulata 'Avalanche' from Janis
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its a beauty
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The first Iris for me!
Iris histrioides ssp. sophenensis.
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Iris histrio grown from seed collected by Arthur in Turkey 2001
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First flowers on some seedgrown Iris histrio, standards of the plant on the right side surprised me.
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Nothing unusual, but 'Katherine Hodgkin' is defying the dark, miserable weather.
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Looks a nice pot of 'KH' Matt, I don't do well at all with reticulate Irises ???
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Can't say I've done anything special with these, David. They're in the bulb frame and get the same treatment as the Narcissus. A few split up into smaller bulbs, which I've planted out, but even a few of these smaller ones have put up buds. They're nice to have at this time of year.
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Loverly KH matt, here is a pot of Reticlate Purple Gem.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7518/16291855761_196aa96ced_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/126223196@N05/16291855761/)
Iris Retaculata Purple Gem (https://www.flickr.com/photos/126223196@N05/16291855761/) by johnstephen29 (https://www.flickr.com/people/126223196@N05/), on Flickr
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These are the first flowers on these seedlings from Iris histriodes Lady Beatrice Stanley and quite like the parent
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a common hybrid 'Pauline'
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Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown ' in the open rockgarden today ,
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a nice one, well named after coffee
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Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown ' in the open rockgarden today ,
wow its lovely
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Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown ' in the open rockgarden today ,
Kris,
I love brown iris and this one is delightful.
I presume it is one of Alan McMurtrie's?
cheers
fermi
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Kris,
I love brown iris and this one is delightful.
I presume it is one of Alan McMurtrie's?
cheers
fermi
Hi Fermi , yes it is Alan who is responsible for this delightful Iris .First time flowering here and I must admit that I love it !
It is a fantastic colour but not easy to catch on a picture. Certainly not on a dark day like today or on the end of the day like yesterday.....
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Her are a couple of Iris in bloom in my bulbhouse now
Iris bakeriana
Iris retic
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Looking good, Art .
Moving this to the IRIS section of the forum.....
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There is a thread for 2015 already,
cheers
fermi
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There is a thread for 2015 already,
cheers
fermi
So there is - all merged now. Thanks
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Iris reticulata 'VELVET SMILE'
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Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown ' in the open rockgarden today ,
Today it looks rather like Irish Coffee ;D
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Iris reticulata 'VELVET SMILE'
It certainly make us smile Yann .
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Her are a couple of Iris in bloom in my bulbhouse now
Iris bakeriana
Iris retic
Nice "retics" Art !
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Kris no ice buckets here :D
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Iris reticulata 'Kopetdaghensis' in flower .
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Here is my first of the year.
I. danfordiae
John B
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Here is my first of the year.
I. danfordiae
John B
Looks fantastic John :o :o :o
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Thanks Kris. I am in zone 6 and it was below freezing the last week, didn't phase it.
John B
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Iris histrio from Northern Syria blooming today for the first time
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Here is my first of the year.
I. danfordiae
John B
Love this one!
Here some more seedgrown Iris histrio - left a form from Israel, right one from Turkey.
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Both gorgeous Hans !!
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Both gorgeous Hans !!
Oh yes indeed , agree with Luc !
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Here are a couple of Iris in bloom in my bulbhouse now
Iris bakeriana
Iris retic
Alan McMurtrie said Iris bakeriana should be blue. I took several poor photos (lack of good light) of the leaves and the are certainly not retic leaves.
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Very nice plant, Arthur!
Here is the reason I love to grow bulbs from seed - a third Iris histrio (in front- also from Turkey) opened it bud today.
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They're all lovely Hans, the same but also so very different from each other. Such a good advert for growing from seed.
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Several nice Irises from seed ex Alan McMurtrie. David Nicholson initiated and order which we shared. Some nice variations. Here's one
Nice blue/purple one
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And another ...
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Tony
Very nice from Alan McMurtrie seed.
Mine from that shared purchase are not nearly ready to flower, but some from my earlier purchase will flower soon. Will post all of them.
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Several nice Irises from seed ex Alan McMurtrie. David Nicholson initiated and order which we shared. Some nice variations. Here's one
Nice blue/purple one
please post more - they are wonderful
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Iris reticulata 'Blue Note'
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I got this iris as bulbs of I. danfordiae 2 years ago. I thought I misslabelled and checked the flowers I ordered same time, but could not find yellow one. Then, I asked the nursery and now it is identified as a McMurtrie's hybrid Iris ‘Summers Day’ :)
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A very attractive Iris, Tatsuo. I like Kris's brown one earlier in this thread. I look at Alan McMurtrie's website sometimes and drool over all those lovely seedlings which are never going to be available to buy.
Two flowering here now
Iris 'Avalanche' in sun
Iris 'Avalanche' in shade
Iris 'Sea Green' in sun
Iris 'Sea Green' in shade
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A very attractive Iris, Tatsuo. I like Kris's brown one earlier in this thread.
Thank you, Roma :) Yours are so lovely hybrids, too! And yes, Kris's one is really outstanding and fascinating :o
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lovely hybrids from both of you, thanks for sharing
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Iris reticulata 'Spot on'
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Iris reticulata 'Spot on'
:o :o :o 8) :P
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00-KV-3 was shown at the Monday Feb 2nd KAVB flower show.
The colour is more "red" than this picture would suggest
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Here's a picture I took in the field in Holland last year.
They do loose the "redness" as the flowers age
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That's a good one, lan - I like the rounded nature of the falls.
(Also I have edited your photos to fit the forum preferred size of 760 pixels wide)
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Loverly irises Ian
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WOW! They are looking wonderful, fantastic wee plants for this time of year.
I had some Alan McMurtrie varieties from Janis a couple of years back, unfortunately I lost them when I moved last year.
Are there anyone who sells them for the UK as Janis doesn’t list them any more?
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Iris zagrica
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I had some Alan McMurtrie varieties from Janis a couple of years back, unfortunately I lost them when I moved last year.
Are there anyone who sells them for the UK as Janis doesn’t list them any more?
That's too bad, Ross :( I'm hoping Janis and Liga will add the irises on their list again.
Iris zagrica
It's a beautiful picture and flowers (as always), Steve :D
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Iris histrio, JJA 588.406. Turkey, Hatay, Wof Kişlak. Ex a N. Stevens coll.
This is the first flower from seed :)
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Iris zagrica
Fantastic picture from a fantastic Iris Steve !
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Iris histrio, JJA 588.406. Turkey, Hatay, Wof Kişlak. Ex a N. Stevens coll.
This is the first flower from seed :)
What a really nice form Tatsuo !
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Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown ' in the open rockgarden today ,
And it is stil flowering , what a great plant .....
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Not many people would realise that you can get three weeks' flower from an Iris , Kris - when many are so very fleeting - your Coffee Brown is a good lesson!
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I ordered seeds of a tulip a few years ago and got this instead, Iris histrio, flowering in the garden now.
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Beautiful plants, Cyril - are those on the picture different clones?
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I ordered seeds of a tulip a few years ago and got this instead, Iris histrio, flowering in the garden now.
Pleasant mistake, Cyril !
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I ordered seeds of a tulip a few years ago and got this instead, Iris histrio, flowering in the garden now.
Extremely beautiful Cyril , a mistake that is easy forgotten .....
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I'll be at the RHS show in London Feb 20-21.
Some of my hybrids will be on display, and I'll be speaking at 12PM both days -- only ½ hour though :-[
John Amand will be taking a few to Dunblane on the 21st
These photos are intended to show off a few of my hybrids, but more importantly they show what I'm working on to promote them. I'm having some 4x6 inch double sided "postcards" made up. In many cases I used Photoshop to knockout the flowers, and then I've darkened the background so the flower stands out. Would be nice to be able take pictures in a studio with a white or black background, but generally that isn't possible.
00-KN-5 and 00-KN-6 may possibly be on display.
(saw the note about 760 pixels wide)
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Lovely pix, Alan - and a very happy birthday to you! :-* :-*
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These are magnificent Alan; well done.
Are they coming on the market then, and under what names?
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Terrific Alan!!!
Here first of my favourites started - Iris pamphylica
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Beautiful plants, Cyril - are those on the picture different clones?
Hans, they are all different clones but look very uniform. The seeds were sown about 6 years ago.
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Thanks Cyril, they are really very uniform for being different clones! Very nice result!
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Here a third clone with more purple flowers.
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Breathtaking, Hans !
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Nice images of this stunning iris Hans!!!
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Smile: I posted 19 of these to my Facebook page i.e. 38 pictures in total.
That doesn't include the 4 that will be available for sure this year: White Caucasus, Spot On, Scent•sational, and Eye Catcher. The Dutch grower also suggested he wanted to start small-scale sales of 00-HW-1 (10,000 bulbs); also not pictured (no name yet; yellow with lighter style arms; I'll find out more when I'm in Holland in March).
Stocks are in different stages of being built up. A couple will be ready in a year or two.
I'm being told by the Dutch that I have too many hybrids -- that there's not enough room for them, particularly in the large-scale market, to which a large volume of bulbs are sold for forcing.
It will be interesting to see how things shake out.
What I need to do is generate excitement about my hybrids, and generate demand for them. This should then encourage the Dutch to introduce more of them.
Exporters and Retailers may look at Spot On and Scent•sational and say they are somewhat similar to the existing blues and purples -- which won't encourage the growers.
White Caucasus is very beautiful. This year I'm thinking we should limit sales to 50,000 in order to continue building up the stock. Eye Catcher will also be limited to about 10,000 bulbs so the stock can be built up further.
I see momentum starting to build this year, but it will take another year or two before things really get going.
The Catch-22 is you need stock in order to start sales. What I faced with the original grower is he only wanted to build up stock of a couple. He kept rejecting things like Orange Glow. So now we're starting sales. If people like my hybrids and want more we'd have nothing for them for quite a number of years. Fortunately 10 years ago I "took out an insurance policy" by giving a middle man some of my hybrids. I'm now working directly with the grower, and we do have things to follow the first four. And, after a 1½ year legal battle I bought out the original grower's share of my hybrids. I'm taking a significant risk, plus I've been making a big financial investment in tetraploids.
I've been trying to find some small-scale growers and have yet to be successful.
How all of this will pan out is very, very much up in the air.
I point all of this out so you get a sense of all of the difficulties I'm encountering. Also Plant Breeder Rights are expensive. There is at least one grower in Holland building up some of my hybrids that Janis sold...
This is / was suppose to be a fun hobby...
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I know understand the sense of your last email Alan.
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Here first of my favourites started - Iris pamphylica
Here a third clone with more purple flowers.
Fantastic Hans. It is my favourite reticulate iris. My I. pamphylica is a few weeks off flowering. Last year they flowered mid March.
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Here first of my favourites started - Iris pamphylica
Wonderful plant and photo Hans. Hopefully mine will be in flower soon ;)
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Thanks a lot Luc, Steve, Cyril and Ian!
Here it flowers earlier normally (around 15 of January) but this year everything is a bit later.
Ian, i am sure! ;-)
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Another Iris zagrica in flower.
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hi, I picked up a few pots from Garden centres the last week or so. One was supposed to be "George" - it isn't. The colour of the picture is reasonably true - maybe this is "Pixie" which I think is also doing the rounds. Any ideas anyone?
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Hi Mark, I think you are right it looks very much like Pixie. Here is a picture of my Iris Pixie taken a few years ago.
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thanks Cyril, certainly looks like it.
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An easy but nice one.
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Also easy but nice, especially up close and in detail:
'Katherine Hodgkin' flowering outside now too. These are from small offsets that I wasn't expecting to flower. Feeling guilty for relegating them to grow outside.
I love this wee I. reticulata hybrid growing in a trough. I think this one is 'Gordon'.
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Lovely pix Matt - glad someone's been getting that yellow thing in the sky......
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Yes, I was a bit taken aback at first Maggi, but eventually remembered that thing we used to call the sun. It has been a blissful day here, but I was stuck inside for a large part of it as I was working. I did cycle there and back though and to make up for it work did involve eating cheesecake and the best selection of baking you can imagine ;)
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Yeah, tough life that - but I'm confident you can cope......
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Iris 'Spot On '
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First iris this spring is Iris 'Spot On'. Beautiful dark flower :D
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Marit
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I love this wee I. reticulata hybrid growing in a trough. I think this one is 'Gordon'.
Here's my pot of 'Gordon'. I know these garden centre varieties are common but lovely nonetheless on a dull February day.
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Lovely irises, all :)
Here is Iris reticulata kopetdaghensis (or “Kopet Dag” MCM type).
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Iris kolpakowskiana
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-on a dour dreich day!
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An Iris from Iran
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I received this Iris retic 'Blue Note' from Kot
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An Iris from Iran
Very nice plant, Arthur!
Before boring you - here the last picture of Iris pamphylica - looks more like a bouquet than plants of a rockery...
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Before boring you - here the last picture of Iris pamphylica - looks more like a bouquet than plants of a rockery...
Teasing Hans, but certainly never boring!!! ;)
(I couldn't find the green with envy smiley!).
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Very nice plant, Arthur!
Before boring you - here the last picture of Iris pamphylica - looks more like a bouquet than plants of a rockery...
Gorgeous clump Hans... but they will need some thinning out... ::) :P ;)
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Thanks Steve and Luc - thought about thinning out them a bit, even the stand is not as dense as it looks like on the picture, but as there are some little babies around I will not do that. As usual cutworms destroyed every seedpod last year so I did not even try to harvest any seed - seems some seeds resisted the invasion. :)
Second picture shows how this group looked in 2009.
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I've been keeping my head down since a few days ago when TonyG sowed a fine Iris reticulata grown from Alan McMurtrie seed which I had shared with both him and Arthur. The reason was that I have lost most of mine seedlings apart from one small potfull. One flowering, just!
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Alan was speaking at the RHS London flower and Spud show ( ::) ) today - see some photos of from Chas here : www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12832.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12832.0) Lovely display with Jacques Amand .www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12832.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12832.0)
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Sorry Maggi I should have put it under this topic ::) ::)
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Sorry Maggi I should have put it under this topic ::) ::)
Maybe nice to keep it on its own - easy to find.
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I've been keeping my head down since a few days ago when TonyG sowed a fine Iris reticulata grown from Alan McMurtrie seed which I had shared with both him and Arthur. The reason was that I have lost most of mine seedlings apart from one small potfull. One flowering, just!
Whey hey - at least you have this one.
I grow mine in with the crocuses and they seem to like the same treatment. Maybe your 'western' weather is not ideal, even under glass?
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Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin'
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Not good. Perfect last year.
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:( I had just a couple of KH bulbs showing virus last year and quickly rogued them out. No signs this year, thankfully. However, I suspect virus is quite likely to be latent in all of them and might rear its head at some point. Is there anywhere one can get clean stock?
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Iris 'Katherine Hodgkin' felt a little chilly on this frosty morning...
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today in flower,
Iris sophenensis x danfordiae 'Coffee Brown',
for me one of the best crosses from Alan McMurtrie
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In flower today in the Alpine house
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Frank Elder?
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Alida
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Alida - close
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dark form of KH
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Pixie
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Palm Springs - its a big thing
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Palm Springs Close up
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SA Germaney
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Lovely photos Graeme, I saw 'Alida' at the Harlow Show today and thought how nice it was but by the time I looked none for sale.
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Loverly pots of iris Graeme, you certainly know how to grow them.
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Loverly pots of iris Graeme, you certainly know how to grow them.
most of them are in long pots planted deep - sometimes though they still break up into small bulbs
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Lovely photos Graeme, I saw 'Alida' at the Harlow Show today and thought how nice it was but by the time I looked none for sale.
hi Brian - not had it long so only have a handful of bulbs - I bet the one on display was a potful
'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge
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'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge
I saw and bought today at Harlow - I think the colouring is beautiful and was surprised at the height.
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hi Brian - not had it long so only have a handful of bulbs - I bet the one on display was a potful
'palm springs' is the one which has surprised me most today - its huge
Yes it is lovely, we have it in the garden.
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I saw and bought today at Harlow - I think the colouring is beautiful and was surprised at the height.
I bought it without seeing it - I was just assured it was big - you can tell the size of the flowers as there is a pot of ipheion charlotte bishop next to it with a flower on that I had not noticed
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Yes it is lovely, we have it in the garden.
I tend not to have any outside - too cold and wet - but I don't seem to be able to bulk them up very quickly in pots
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most of them are in long pots planted deep - sometimes though they still break up into small bulbs
I have most trouble with danfordiae doing that, into little grains of rice, takes them ages to flower.
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I bought some Katherine Hodgkin a few weeks back - I'm assuming the "ink blots" on the standards and falls are signs of virus?
Given the pot is packed is there any point in trying to seperate them out to try and find unvirused one? Can it be done when they are in growth or simply pot them up singly over the summer/ autumn and wait for reflowering?
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I tend not to have any outside - too cold and wet - but I don't seem to be able to bulk them up very quickly in pots
Yes I can see that could be the case in Derbyshire, fortunately the East of England is a lot drier.
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Yes I can see that could be the case in Derbyshire, fortunately the East of England is a lot drier.
Wife grows a lot of lavender - so we do go to Norfolk at least once a year in the summer - there are times when I could do with that climate and soil
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I bought some Katherine Hodgkin a few weeks back - I'm assuming the "ink blots" on the standards and falls are signs of virus?
Given the pot is packed is there any point in trying to seperate them out to try and find unvirused one? Can it be done when they are in growth or simply pot them up singly over the summer/ autumn and wait for reflowering?
Yes Mark, the classic sign of virus in KH. It is possible to un-pot, carefully teasing out the root with minimal damage and repot them. I do this with retics in pots for house display then planted out in the garden to grow on singly. They grow away ok. Unfortunately, I suspect that most (all?) KH bulbs may carry the virus, so even if they don't display signs now they might in the future. However, you might achieve a clean stock over time with rigorous roguing out.
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Iris 'Blue Note'
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thanks Matt, looking at it again I'm not sure that any of the flowers are free of blotching but I'll have a proper look later. Pity, it's a nice plant.
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New purchases from Dunblane last week
Iris 'Dance On'
Iris 'Vivacious Beginnings' - Odd name - difficult to say and even harder to spell
Iris winogradowii and Iris winogradowii 'Alba' - not white and I believe it is a hybrid. It looks as if it has some histrioides blood.
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Nice hybrids and winogradowii, Roma :D
Here is another Iris winogradowii.
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Goodness me. Even your Iris are compact, Tatsuo!
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Tatsuo use wheat nanifer, the cupboards are full of Cycocel ;D ;D
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Iris aff reticulata KMZ 9505
-I think this may be a form of Iris hyrcana
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oh that's nice Steve!
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Tatsuo use wheat nanifer, the cupboards are full of Cycocel ;D ;D
Ok, seriously about nanifier use. Are they anyhow useful in the garden, for ornamentals? I started experimenting last year without any success, i.e. no visible results. The issue to be solved are some floppy garden plants like some tulips or corydalis flexuosa.
I diluted Cycocel 1ml per 1 liter of final solution and sprayed a few times since early spring - no result.
Is there any published experience? Is the active ingredient up took by roots?
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Cycocel and other growth regulators are often used in horticulture. chlormequat chloride has no effect on bubs.
The only active ingredient used on bulbous culture is paclobutrazol, also know as Bonzi. It is used on Lilium, Freesia culture.
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Will we need a degree in Chemistry to read this thread? ;D
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héhé ;D
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yesterday in garden:
Iris 'Seagreen' , a wonderful cross from Alan McMurtrie
'' zagrica, Iran
'' histrioides 'Lady Beatrix Stanley' left and Iris histrio right; the dark and late flower is very unusual
for histrio ( possibly a cross with histrioides? )
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Sounds like a trick question but what colour is Iris 'White Caucasicus'? Mine is pale blue
The miniature bulbs web site says "reticulata 'White Caucasus' A new Alan McMurtie seedling in sparkling white with a narrow bright yellow crest"
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Mark, I've banged on about this on the Forum quite a few times over the years when I was growing it. It isn't "sparkling white" at all and has never been, it's a very, very pale shade of blue.
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My first flower of Iris pamphyllica- thanks Hans ;)
I've photographed it with and without a background as I'm not sure which looks best
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Isn't that just so elegant?
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Beautiful.
Does anyone know of a seed source?
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Beautiful.
Does anyone know of a seed source?
Ashley I have sent you a pm
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Mark, I've banged on about this on the Forum quite a few times over the years when I was growing it. It isn't "sparkling white" at all and has never been, it's a very, very pale shade of blue.
Good to know
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Isn't that just so elegant?
Yes Maggi I think it is
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This is what I grow as Iris 'White Caucasus'
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Luc, your's looks an awful lot whiter than mine ever did. I wonder if there is more than one clone in circulation. Here's mine from 2012 after which it died on me(probably so fed up with me moaning that it wasn't white!) ;D
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Iris 'Frank Elder'
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hi, can anyone id this Iris? My mother bought it as a "kit" for my wife (bowl, bulbs and compost). I've managed to lift the bulbd and compost complete and put them into a proper pot (with drainage holes).
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A nameless McMurtrie- hybrid has survived here now over two winters (though these have been rather mild winters). :)
This is my earliest iris.
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I bought a bulb of Iris winogradowii last autumn, finished flowering but now, looking more closely at the leaves, is it virused?
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Luc, your's looks an awful lot whiter than mine ever did. I wonder if there is more than one clone in circulation. Here's mine from 2012 after which it died on me(probably so fed up with me moaning that it wasn't white!) ;D
The Catch-22 is: how was it grown?
I've seen flowers of 98-YS-1 forced in a greenhouse that had pale, pale blue standards and style arms. In the open they are a beautiful pure white.
Ideally there should be only "one" White Caucasus in circulation. However that main stock should include two sets of tissue culture material from two different labs. There is also a separate "original stock," and there is a separate small quantity 'selected form,' which presumably was separated out of the main stock. I have not seen these for comparison because they aren't blooming when I'm in Holland. I have seen White Caucasus that Wim de Goede forced in each of a number of years for the Lentetuin ("Spring Garden" flower show in Breezand, Holland held around the beginning of March), and it did indeed look pure white. I expect the bulbs he used were from the main stock, but I don't know that.
This year for the first time I saw some tetraploid material of Orange Glow. The flowers were 25% larger, and the intensity of the colour looked to all intents and purposes to be the same (diploid on the left, tetraploid on the right). Smile: I wonder if the octaploid flowers will be any bigger... I've been cautioned that for one thing the octaploid material could be slower growing, and thus may not be suitable for commercial propagation.
In this case we are talking about material that has been tissue cultured (then treated with Colchicine). There was some suggestion that "4 doses of genes" producing the chemicals that reflect orange to our eyes might be more be more intense than 2. This doesn't seem to be the case, though I didn't see the flowers when they first opened. The orange, or more appropriately apricot, is very intense when the flowers first open, then it rather quickly fades; hence the name Orange Glow.
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New purchases from Dunblane last week
Iris 'Dance On'
Iris 'Vivacious Beginnings' - Odd name - difficult to say and even harder to spell
Iris winogradowii and Iris winogradowii 'Alba' - not white and I believe it is a hybrid. It looks as if it has some histrioides blood.
More likely it has Cantab in it.
I and one other person have gotten plants from Cantab x winogradowii
Of course the cross is a sterile dead-end (meaning you can't go any further with the progeny)
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Iris JS Dijt
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Proof: my hybrids will form clumps, which is exactly what we want them to do. I recommend planting half of the bulbs in a second location, with the bulblets about 2 cm deep. Mature bulbs should be 7-8 cm deep, and well spread out. A third spot adds a bit of insurance. If one of the spots is in a shaded location you'll have extended bloom
This F1 sxd clump is from a bulblet that got left behind when the area was replanted with 2009 Retic seed. It isn't an isolated case. There are a number of others, though this has the largest number of buds. Others have ½-⅔ the number.
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A picture of 03-FO-2 in Holland
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08-EJ-1 opening for the very first time...
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That's going to be a really stripey one..... 8)
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Volia... 08-EJ-1
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very nice
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From 8th February, Iris 'Lady Beatrix Stanley'.
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A lost label iris photographed on 10th February. Can anyone identify?
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After two cool rainy days the Retics are finally starting... hope they don't come too quickly
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The most intense orange to-date
...and most importantly, it doesn't fade!
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Great "spotties" Alan - but I like that one with the orange lip the best.
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Alan
I like them all :)
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Seconded.
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I was blown away when I lifted the can covering 10-BL-1
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Alan,
Your s x d hybrids are amazing!
I hope more of them become available more widely and some eventually get distributed here in Australia! We have a few which were brought in by individuals but not commercially.
Keep up the good great work ;D
cheers
fermi
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two of the hybrids flowering here now:
1. See Green
2. Blue Ice
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I was blown away when I lifted the can covering 10-BL-1
Wow that is a stunner Alan :o
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Here's another quite different Retic -- 09-OD-1
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Time to revive this thread!
First retics in flower in our garden now:
Iris (histrioides x reticulata) 'George' x2
Iris 'Violet Beauty' x2 - the true colour not captured by my "instamatic" - :-[ I said as much about Jamus' pic a few weeks ago!
Iris 'JS Dijt', also loved by slugs >:(
cheers
fermi
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An update from Alan McMutrie for his website on the new developments this year.... http://www.reticulatas.com/ (http://www.reticulatas.com/)
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Iris Natascha, new bulbs purchased this year from Lambley Nursery, in a new raised rock garden bed,
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
Do you grow your reticulata Iris dry or moist while dormant during the summer?
I have had mixed results here depending on the soil type and moisture levels or lack of moisture during the summer. In a very quick draining, lean soil, I very often need up with desiccated bulbs by autumn, if I do not irrigate the area in the summer. This seem to be the case even if the bulbs are quite deep in the soil. In clay they seem happy as long as I do not irrigate the area.
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Hi Robert,
Most of our retics are grown in clay to which some grit or sand has been added; we don't usually irrigate them. The exception is'Katherine H' which is grown in a bed which gets summer water, but I've only had it two years. Previous attempts at growing her have ended in death for the poor lady, but I took a chance to try again and at least she has re-emerged. Now to see if we can get a second flowering!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
Thank you for the reply. It appears that we are having somewhat similar results. I keep trying too.
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Did we ever decide what colour Iris 'White Caucasus' actually is? Luc's is a fabulous white while mine are pale blue. Look at the petal that is in the shade
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Hello,
As I understand it white irises are in fact blue irises but with the anthocyanin pigmentation suppressed. Take a look at I. florentina or the regelia I. hoogiana alba. Both can appear bluish under very overcast sky conditions, particularly in the bud stage or when the flowers open. In bright sunshine they are pure white. Juno I. magnifica can often also appear bluish.
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The first of my Iris retics
I purchased 'Sea Breeze' from John Amand at the Kent Show and I am surprised how early it is.
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Wow, Art,
that is early! Another McMurtrie hybrid, I see,
cheers
fermi
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I Will take this chance to remind folks that Alan McMurtrie will be one of the speakers at the SRGC Dunblane (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13340.msg344016#msg344016) Early Bulb Day in February!
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Nice one Arthur.
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Nice one Arthur.
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David
How are your seedlings doing. I am hoping more will bloom this year and maybe one might be special.quote.
Arthur
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Can anyone ID this reticulate Iris? My mother gave it to me last year as a DIY christmas thing, a few bulbs, compost and a bowl (with no drainage). After flowering I managed to lift the whole thing out and put in a normal pot and it's flowering again now.
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Can anyone ID this reticulate Iris? My mother gave it to me last year as a DIY christmas thing, a few bulbs, compost and a bowl (with no drainage). After flowering I managed to lift the whole thing out and put in a normal pot and it's flowering again now.
looks like 'Alida ' to me?
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Graeme, could be - but mine seems a bit darker than yours or other pictures I've found. Could it be Harmony?
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Iris 'Eye Catcher'
and Iris 'Orange Glow'
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Wim
Love the McMurtrie hybrids I hope I still have some flowers when I return from Spain - with the warm weather they could easily all be over.
I hope this year some of my seedlings will flower - maybe a good one.
Arthur
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Wim
Love the McMurtrie hybrids I hope I still have some flowers when I return from Spain - with the warm weather they could easily all be over.
I hope this year some of my seedlings will flower - maybe a good one.
Arthur
Arthur,
over here, they're popping up everywhere too, soon they'll have ended flowering by the end of January (when they normally start) :-\
Show us some of yours when you're back from Spain!
Wim
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I'm very happy with my recent purchase of Iris vartanii
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It's an elegant Iris
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Only one flower per bulb unless more appear in the next week or more
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Where did you source it from Mark?