Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009

[Lesley Cox]

Seeing all your wonderful DBIs has me pining for my old collection of them.   

Me too Paul, so prior to stocking up on some new ones, I'm stocking up on some catalogues. Sent off yesterday for 4 iris catalogues, 2 only doing DBs the others a full range of sizes.

[Paul T]

If you DO get some growths from the old rhizomes Paul and Joakim, they will be small and weak and never make really good plants. You can grow them on to flowering size eventually, maybe 3 years but by that time your original new growths will be bigger, better and with many new rhizomes of their own, much stronger, so why would you bother?

Lesley,

If the iris is desirable enough and one that you want to build up  then I would definitely bother.  You're using something you would otherwise be throwing out, so there is no loss on any other level, and in 3 years you have both the offsets from the plant, PLUS the extras that would otherwise have been thrown out material.  It certainly isn't something you'd do all the time, just in particularly desirable varieties where you're trying to build up stock.

[Paul T]

Fermi,

have you worked out the name of the blue-bearded blackish-red you posted on the last page?

[Joakim B]

Paul and Lesley thanks for the information about using old rhizomes not something I will do on a regular basis (partly since I often let the old rhizome stay with the plant) I think, but if it is looking good why not try and then divide again to make it a better looking plant. Some very vigourus are growing so strongly that it does not seem necessary to try but others are not that vigourus so maybe they are worth it if time and space permit its.

Paul plant them somewhere where they will look nice even if it is outside of Your garden. Gerilla gardening or just improving the comunity as it is better to call it. Iris generally make things nicer I would say.

Kind regards
Joakim

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi,

have you worked out the name of the blue-bearded blackish-red you posted on the last page?

No, I haven't, Paul; have you a suggestion?
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

No.  I have a friend here in Canberra who has one the same in flower in her garden (just purchased last year, but she's lost the name).  Was hoping you might have found a name for it by now.    Ah well.  I liked your photos, but it was even nicer in person.  I took a pic of it at her place when I was there and when I compared it to your pics it is definitely exactly the same thing (even down to the slight white marks at the hafts/beside the beards).  The blue on dark stands out gloriously.    Can't order it from an iris nursery if I can't find a name for it.

[fermi de Sousa]

Can't order it from an iris nursery if I can't find a name for it.

Paul,
No need to order it, I have enough to spare for the FTA!
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Yes, but do I have enough to send you to honour the FTA??    Irises alone at your end are starting to stack up.

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

The Tall Bearded's have started here today.  This one is definitely a named form, and I will know it when I hear it (if you know what I mean), but the name I have on it is incorrect (I don't think it is "Goddess" which is what I had it named as, as I think that is an apricot variety?).  Early flowering, the colours are pretty accurate in the pictures I think.  Any ideas as to the name of it?

Thanks in anticipation.

[Lesley Cox]

The colouring is very interesting Paul but I do wish breeders would get over this obsession they have with frilly bits. The tailored forms are SOOOO much more attractive.

[Paul T]

To you!  I like them both, and I do like the modern forms as well, although I know a lot of the purists don't like them at all. I also love the "space age" iris, which have some people rolling over in their proverbial graves.    Just bringing my iris back to flowering health again now, so there won't be that many photos this year, but hopefully by next year I'll have a whole bunch of them flowering.

So no-one has any idea of the name of mine?

[fermi de Sousa]

Can't help you with a name for yours sorry, Paul.
Here are a couple of MBI:
"Aqua Taj"



And Arilmed, "Orb"

cheers
fermi

[Joakim B]

Paul Could it be Autumn Tryst?
It is early-med and both fragrant and reblooming according to Schreiner in the US.
Here is the link.
http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=AUTM&Category_Code=TBI

Good luck getting Your irises back to flowering
Joakim

[Paul T]

Joakim,

Thanks for the link.  Mine has bronzing n the falls, unlike the Schreiner iris, plus I've never had one called "Autumn Tryst" before.  Also, it takes a  few years for the US ones to get here to Australia, so 1993 would be cutting it pretty fine for the time frame when I bought it.  Thanks for looking for me though. 

[Joakim B]

Paul I did not work more than to A so You have some more work to do . Maybe looking in an Australian seller is better but I do not know any.
Kind regards
Joakim