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Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: Alex on January 25, 2009, 10:26:34 PM

Title: Iris galatica
Post by: Alex on January 25, 2009, 10:26:34 PM

Having grown this bulb for 4 years without flower, I am delighted that this year it has seen fit to oblige...

Alex

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Post by: arillady on January 26, 2009, 12:44:21 AM

Great photos Alex.

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Post by: BULBISSIME on January 26, 2009, 06:52:39 AM

Very nice species and picture Alex.
Did you grow it from seed to wait 4 years ?

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Post by: Hans A. on January 26, 2009, 07:32:51 AM

Alex, thanks for showing this wonderful picture of this tricky species! :D

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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on January 26, 2009, 01:01:18 PM

Very attractive Alex !!!

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Post by: David Nicholson on January 26, 2009, 01:11:26 PM

Well grown Alex.

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Post by: Miriam on January 26, 2009, 02:09:04 PM

It was definitely worth waiting!

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Post by: Alex on January 26, 2009, 09:51:28 PM

Hi Fred,

No, not grown from seed by me, just acquired as a small bulb. It doesn't put on weight very quickly, but it's finally got there. It somewhat makes up for the fact that I seem to have lost almost all of my 3 Iris persica (one sub-size bulb left), which had been derived from a single bulb over a few years but suffered a fatal setback when I didn't pull the flowers off last year and the Botrytis went right down to the bulb(s)  :'(.

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Post by: biodiversite on January 27, 2009, 06:26:05 PM

I grow this species outside and I hope it is still alive : I'll put pictures of this year's flowers but flowers from the last two years are on my little french forum

http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/les-bulbes-f7/les-iris-juno-t141.htm

only a bad photo last year, but it was the first time my two plants were flowering together...

http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/les-bulbes-f7/juno-2008-t1463.htm

Title: Re: Iris galatica
Post by: Alex on January 27, 2009, 10:22:40 PM

Very nice - I have a single 2 year old seedling coming on (the rest of the sowing never even came up), so maybe one day I will have two flowers as well!!

Alex

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Post by: Otto Fauser on January 28, 2009, 03:28:54 AM

Alex ,  you are a great and very clever gardener to grow and flower this beautyful and tricky species  - I once saw that very same colour combination of I. galatica just outside Goreme, Turkey, quite a lot of plants in flower in that spot.
    Otto.

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Post by: Alex on January 30, 2009, 10:39:11 PM

I wish that was true! Sadly not.

The colour range in this sp. is interesting, it makes me wonder about the ingress of some other sp. at one end of the range to give the bluer plants like mine vs. those more typical one shown by Biodiversite above.

Alex