Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009

[arillady]

Yes Fermi the unknown yellow and white came from Robyn R and I should imagine it is a species. I have grown seedlings from it by selfing it and I do think they were the same (without looking and a sometimes faulty memory says she!).

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You keep brightening these pages with all your beardies Fermi !
It is now clear to me you have more than 2 or 3 
Might they possibly be favourites of yours ?? 

[Roma]

An out of season Iris 'Gingerbread Man' flowering on11th. September.  Another flower followed and a third on the same stem opened today, but they were a bit chewed by slugs.

[fermi de Sousa]

You keep brightening these pages with all your beardies Fermi !
It is now clear to me you have more than 2 or 3 
Might they possibly be favourites of yours ?? 

Luc, you've guessed it ! Bearded Iris were the first flowers I learned to love when I was a child of 10, so it has stuck with me, though I prefer the Dwarf ones these days!
Here are a few more!
This is a new one for us, "Face-paint"

One we got from a friend, and just called "Helene's gold"

A lovely little one called "Lasange" (Like Garfield says, I haven't met a lasanga I didn't like!)

A lilac and brown combo we got from another friend, Margaret<

Another new one but the label is lost! I'll have to look up the diary from the year when I got it to try to work out which one it is,

This one is a bit undernourished and the label is buried but I think it's the old hybrid "Hi sailor"

I'd posted a pic of "Zounds" earlier in the year, but it's worth repeating,

The next one we got a s"Milk Coffee" but it looks a lot like Roma's "Gingerbreadman"!

Last, a mix of DBI's; the two browns came with one label, so which is the imposter?

cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice colour combinations Fermi !!
Difficult to choose from.

[Paul T]

Fermi,

That unknown dark one with the reference to checking your diary.... did you order 'Cherry Child' that year?  Looks like my memory of that one.  'Hi Sailor' looks right for that name, but there is another very similar one from memory.  "Lasange' and the lilac an brown combo look pretty speccy too. 

I can't remember whether I mentioned it when I was down there visiting you, but I used to rent a yard for my irises a few years ago.  I had about 400 or so of them (and now have only a small fraction of that).  I have very few dwarf varieties now, much to my chagrin (they don't store as well in bags unfortunately, and died out), so maybe we can work something out regarding trading for a few pieces of some of yours to perhaps wing their way up this way?

[Lesley Cox]

The Margaret one could be 'Cherry Lavender.'

[Armin]

Fermi,
you have a showy DBI selection
It is a pleasure to see!

[Lesley Cox]

Mark, when I sent you 'Grandma's Hat,' I think I sent the wrong one. The clump I took it from is now in flower, a little white with a sky-blue spot on the falls. GH is next to it. I'll send GH as soon as they've finished flowering, which is the right time to lift anyway. I'll also resurrect the other label and let you know what it is. Sorry bout that.

[fermi de Sousa]

 

Fermi,
you have a showy DBI selection
It is a pleasure to see!

Thanks, Armin.
And thanks to others for suggestions for names.
Paul, I'm sure we can arrange something; Victoria has a FTA with the ACT!
Here are a few more,
starting with the "wild" iris in these parts that I presume is a form of "Florentine Iris",



Here area couple of better shots of "Face Paint"



And this little one which I thought was "Face Paint" but it isn't and I can't find a label!

The next one was relocated without a label and I thought it was going to be "Knick Knack' but it seems a bit different. ( Most likely this is "Fairy Footsteps" as suggested by Paul T)

This is "Jazzamatazz"

And "Kiwi Slices"

I thought this one was also "Kiwi Slices" so didn't bother checking the label, but on looking at it on screen it seems a bit different! Maybe just the light this morning; I'll look for the label tomorrow.( I found it, too! It is "Kiwi Slices"!)

All for now, cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

That white one with the pale blue edge... 'Fairy Footsteps'?  Not sure, as I don't recall the blue being as wide at the hafts on that one, but could be attributable to environmental conditions.  Not many white with plicata palest blue edging (if I'm seeing that correctly in the picture) in the dwarf ones I think.  'Jazzamattaz' was a favourite of mine when I used to grow the DBIs more, as was 'Zounds' (which I think I still have a tiny bit going of), and 'Windrose' (which I know I don't).  Lots of buds starting here on the Tall Beardeds, and the DBI 'Making Eyes' has opened this week.  I think I counted buds on something like 18 different varieties yesterday, but I still have a lot more than that.  Most are recovering from being grown in small pots for a number of years, only being planted back out into the garden last year.  Hoping to get back into showing them at our Iris show by next year, once everything has recovered enough to put on proper flower stems.  So nice to see your DBIs, to remind me the irises are coming along here soon too.  Thanks.

[fermi de Sousa]

Here are today's offerings, (the first three were also posted last year!)
"Seta",

"Lime Ruffles"

"Dawn Princess"

and another one whose label I can't find! I thought for one moment that it might be the elusive "Gingerbreadman"! But I don't think so.

That white one with the pale blue edge... 'Fairy Footsteps'?  Not sure, as I don't recall the blue being as wide at the hafts on that one, but could be attributable to environmental conditions.  Not many white with plicata palest blue edging (if I'm seeing that correctly in the picture) in the dwarf ones I think. 

Paul,
I think it might be "Fairy Footsteps" as I do have that one somewhere in the garden, thanks again,
cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

They're all wonderful Fermi ... but 'Lime ruffles' and the would be Gingerbread man are among my favourites !

[Joakim B]

Fermi I am far from an iris expert but the "ginger coloured DBI" You had might be Ginger bread man. Much more so than the one You suspected to be so since the one You suspected to be so is much more Yellow. The darker colour of Romas might be due to the different temperatures and sun at Your different locations. I think it looks like some pics I have seen as GBM and it seems to vary a bit. I have it but is is not yet flowering. I think both Lesley and I suggested that last Year but am not sure.
Very lovely collection
Kind regards
Joakim

[Joakim B]

While in Hungary I visited a nursery (maybe garden center is better) that had irises and some where named and I think they came from a Hungarian Iris nursery that I been checking out but never ordered from.
http://www.iriszkert.hu/index.php?id=iriszek It is all in Hungarian but the picture says all. Prices 250 forint is 1€ depending on what tim of the year it is. 230-250 to be more precise.
I bought four plants pots and they were all labeled. They removed a big label since that was there own so one is now unnamed and I can not remember what it is. This generally does not matter to me anyway but still bugs me a bit. I payed 2000 forint and that is 8€ even though the sign sayd 660 each so I was happy.
The names I got was Low Ho Silver, Immortality and Vamp. The last two where planted in a mix with perlite??? Is that a smart thing? It might increase drainage but also retaining water?. One of the old stems had rotted so I had two separate plants so one went to Portugal. In the other case I split the rizome since it was a big one. The unknown had also two plants in it but Low How Silver had 8 plants and 8 small ones so I planted some in Hungary gave some to my Mother to bring to Sweden and some to bring to Portugal for trading. I also had one big one to be used for my mother in trading with the lady that sells honey that also have different plans in Hungary.
Sorry no pictures and only if people want to see what came to Portugal can there be any.
Now to my question do You split new bought rizomes that are big enough to be split?
The ones that had 8+8 plants needed to be split that I knew when I bought it but not that I would find so many there. This seems to be intermeriate and from the name it is likely but was not listed as such in the Hungarian nursery that did not have a picture so I will see what it turns out to be?
Any one else done some nice Autumn shopping lately?
Kind regards
Joakim