Iris, non-bearded, 2014

[ashley]

... and a nice form Kris.  I haven't seen this one before.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Very early for Iris unguicularis.

That's what I was thinking to John .

[krisderaeymaeker]

... and a nice form Kris.  I haven't seen this one before.

Thanks Ashley . I got it from Aberconwy....
 

[fermi de Sousa]

Iris unguicularis ' Peloponnese Snow'  flowering at a rather strange moment ....

Hi Kris,
this is a new one on me!
Do you know where it was raised? is there a chance that it's a hybrid and that's why it's flowering now?
cheers
fermi

[krisderaeymaeker]

Hi Kris,
this is a new one on me!
Do you know where it was raised? is there a chance that it's a hybrid and that's why it's flowering now?
cheers
fermi

Hi Fermi , until this spring it was also new to me ........
I think it  is not an hybrid and it was found in the wild in Greece. Read somewhere that it was first distributed by Robert Rolfe ? 
There must be an article in the AGS bulletin from september 2011, I wil read this article again tomorrow ...   

[Lesley Cox]

It's very nice indeed Kris, and seems to have good texture and substance too, a great help for winter irises. My unguicularis forms have just finished at last. How welcome the early ones are, well all of them of course.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Robert Rolfe writes that he got it from Fritz Kummert (J&FK0124) It was the famous Austrian plantsman who find it in the Peloponnesos . "It is differing  from I unguicularis 'Alba'  in the electric blue blaze that is in effect painted on to each fall "    is what I read in Robert's article. So indeed a wild form and no hybrid ........

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Kris,
so there's a chance it could be reproduced from seed

Here's Iris halophila with its first flush of flowers,
cheers
fermi

[krisderaeymaeker]

Thanks, Kris,
so there's a chance it could be reproduced from seed
cheers
fermi

Hope to get some seed in the future Fermi . In that case offcourse I keep some for the Southern Hemisphere 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Really gloomy day today, brightened by the first flowering of Iris unguicularis, very early for here.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Really gloomy day today, brightened by the first flowering of Iris unguicularis, very early for here.

Also a very early one John. But very welcome tough . 

[fermi de Sousa]

Iris 'Roy Davidson' - almost as vigorous as Iris pseudacorus!
Iris orientalis (syn.ochroleuca)
cheers
fermi

[David Nicholson]

Iris unguicularis, and like Ralph's very early.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Another early flowering, this form of Iris unguicularis has large flowers, 10cm across. A real treat in November.

[Lesley Cox]

Here are a couple of PC hybrids in flower now, seedlings from NZ breeder Mary Barrell,

Then Iris verna.

Iris lacustris