Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009

[Joakim B]

Chris I can not comment on the name on Your latest unknown but I have an unknown in the same colour range.
It is probobly two of the same and it lose colour when aging.
the third is a nice one with spicy scent. It might be the windsor witch that was shown earlier but I am not sure.
Please let me know if You have any ideas.
I also have one that I presume is pallida variata aurerum or something similar.
I first in Portugal noticed that it has a nice scent.
Kind regards
Joakim

[WimB]

Another one flowering here today:

Wild Yasmine

[Hristo]

Cheers Joakim, maybe it's something about that colour range! Either way some super looking TBI's!
New last thing today;
TBI 'Supreme Sultan'
TBI 'Unknown' - Shame because I think this one is rather classy!

[Armin]

"Wild Yasmine" and "Supreme Sultan" have a very warm contrast. Like it.
Congratulations Wim and Chris!

[Lesley Cox]

I think your Unknown 2 is classy as well Chris, a lovely iris. I don't know the names of your first unknown or of yours Joakim but I would suggest from the haft veining that they are very old varieties as modern breeders would discard plants where the haft marks intrude so far onto the blade of the falls. They like clean, solid colour nowadays.

[Joakim B]

Lesley thanks for the input on the unknown
I have no idea where I got it from but I have the feeling it was from Portugal so it might be older than the modern ones.
I looked closer to the one I thought was something with windsor and realized that it was thinking of witches of Endor that was not at all the same.
Chris Your Supreme sultan looks like a much closer contender does it have a spicy scent?
Mine had and also a good bud count of 8 big flowers.
The buds of mine looked "black in the beginning and then lighter and then more to the yellow side. Do You by any chance have pics of the bud stage? Maybe it does not help at all but maybe?
Here s a series where I have taken at different light conditions but showing the different stages.
Could it be the same?
Kind regards
Joakim

[Regelian]

Chris,

I rather like you unknown plicata, as well.  Has a sort of onco look to it.  Reminds me of 'Omar's Stichery'.

[Hristo]

Hi Jamie,
I see what you mean, I guess our unknown could be arilbred?
We have a very late Iris 'Vera Olivia' about to flower and I guess we know who's going to the dance together!

[Lesley Cox]

Well worth a try Chris. The high, cupped standards are reminiscent of an onco, along with their size, relative to the falls.

[Hristo]

Hi Lesley,
I have all sorts of nice looknig flowers in my head, seed first, then happy imagining for a couple of years!

[Tony Willis]

Paul, I mesopotamica is rarely offered in commerce here, usually because it resent even the little water during summer and so it is difficult for the growers to keep them.
It is one of the plants that people just pull out and give to friends that would like to grow it as we do with I. germanica and I. albicans.

These there species are very common here particularly in old gardens where they are kept completely dry all summer.

here is one which is very similar from SE Turkey. It was growing in a permanently wet area that a farmer was draining and which is now a wheat field. I asked him for a piece which I think he found quite odd.This picture is in my garden.

[WimB]

Some more that are flowering here; the first is 'Burnt Toffee', the second I don't know:

[mark smyth]

Gorgeous Iris everyone.

[akoen]

I have also one that lock like I mesopotamica, but I believe it is an old Iris germanica. I am not sure where I got i from.
It smells a little bit.

[Lesley Cox]

While 'Burnt Toffee' looks beautiful, it should smell appalling!