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art600

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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #120 on: May 15, 2008, 12:27:28 PM »
Zhirair
You are very lucky to have such treasures on your doorstep.
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #121 on: May 22, 2008, 10:33:39 PM »
Congratulations Zhirair, very impresive :o

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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #122 on: May 23, 2008, 09:30:31 PM »
Zhirair and all the others,
did overlook this "Oncos in Flower" since a while.
Wonderful iris...
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #123 on: May 31, 2008, 08:06:19 PM »
Last paradoxa

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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #124 on: June 01, 2008, 03:25:57 PM »
If this was the last one, it was worth the wait Rafa !  :o
Beautiful colours !!
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #125 on: June 01, 2008, 04:17:14 PM »
Amazing, Rafa!!
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #126 on: June 02, 2008, 08:59:01 AM »
Rafa,  a beautiful coloured form - here the last(?) dark paradoxa is in flower at the moment.
The heavy rain of last month (about 200l/m2 - more than in scotland?) is not good for this delicate plants - softrot is around the corner... ::)
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #127 on: June 02, 2008, 07:00:16 PM »
What a beautiful Iris Rafa, now, if I only had your climate........... :(
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #128 on: June 12, 2008, 11:59:49 AM »
STUNNING pictures!!  That dark form of paradoxa is breathtaking, and the acutiloba and elegantissima!!  :o  I so want to grow them!  ::)

Thanks for taking the time to post the pics everyone.  A real joy at this time of year (early winter here).
Cheers.

Paul T.
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Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.

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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #129 on: July 04, 2008, 09:43:48 AM »
Sorry no flowers yet but
I was just checking my seed pots today and noticed that Iris basaltica from 2006 seed from Ian Mitchell in Melbourne had its first new seedling. I rang Ian in excitement and he told me that he believes it is possibly basaltica. He received seeds many years ago ( I believe possibly in the 60s) from an expert in Israel at the time.(he could not remember his name) The atropurpurea turned out to be gatesii and Iris meda was a blue but he felt that all the seeds he received were not pure species. 
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #130 on: July 04, 2008, 11:02:42 AM »
Rafa

Truly beautiful.  How do you grow - in a pot or outside in your garden.  Why do you think it is so late in flowering?
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #131 on: July 24, 2008, 03:38:58 PM »
Now then, here is a real treat for you Iris lovers.....Iris afghanica, and what a cracker!

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Not that I can claim any credit forthis fine potfull.... I merely facilitate the posting of a picture sent from Tasmania to Ootto, to Lesley and to me, here in Aberdeen.... pity the  pot of Iris couldn't make the same journey!!
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #132 on: July 24, 2008, 03:55:22 PM »
Lovely pot of Iris and even room to grow even bigger nice :)
Potting in Lund in Southern Sweden and Coimbra in the middle of Portugal as well as a hill side in central Hungary

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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #133 on: July 24, 2008, 04:59:53 PM »
 :o :o :o - Maggy, I first thought this pic is a joke of somebody who has played with photoshop  ::) - but it looks real -never have seen something like this, just stunning (lucky to sit on a chair when I saw this photo  ;))
Thanks for sharing.
« Last Edit: July 24, 2008, 05:10:50 PM by Hans A. »
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Re: Oncos in Flower...
« Reply #134 on: July 24, 2008, 05:14:58 PM »
Maggi
Is the grower shy?
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