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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #330 on: May 18, 2009, 10:19:33 PM »
Chris,
the "white" one flower shape is "old fashioned".
I like it too.
I got it from an old gardener who unfortunately already died.
He did not know a name for it but told me it to be a rarer one...
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #331 on: May 19, 2009, 12:52:57 PM »
A good day for new flowers!
If anyone can confirm 'Sable Night' I'd be grateful, I am fairly sure it's an older form and 'Sable Night' harks back to 1956.

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 tbi 'betty simon'.jpg
 tbi 'going my way'.jpg
 tbi 'tumultueux'.jpg
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #332 on: May 19, 2009, 01:33:26 PM »
Chris,

That is what I remember 'Pirate's Quest' as looking like.  Great colour in that last 'Tumultuex'.  Love that combination. 

But I just adore Jamie's 'Oasis Dragon'.  Excellent!! 8)
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #333 on: May 19, 2009, 01:37:49 PM »
You seem to have an endless stock of these Chris !  :o
Not that I mind... they're all gorgeous gems !  ;)
Thanks for showing them !
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #334 on: May 19, 2009, 05:55:37 PM »
Cheers Paul and  Luc,
Not as many as I'd like Luc, there are few beardies that I don't like, I thiink we have around 50 cultivars which is not many really, I think Lesley has many more and I shouldn't be surprised if Jamie is buried under them! ;)
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #335 on: May 19, 2009, 11:28:31 PM »
Chris,

I love your turn of phrase.  I know you didn't mean it, but your last comment implies that Lesley has many irises, and that Jamie is buried underneath them.  Gave me a good chuckle when I read it.  I KNOW you didn't mean it that way, but it is quite humorous when read that way.  Maybe the dead bodies underneath is why Lesley grows such nice Iris?  ;D ;)

I have about 100 or so cultivars here, although I used to grow around 400 or so and rent a back yard to grow them in.  I had to downsize at one point.  ::)  Lost a number that I didn't want to lose, but still have some lovelies.  I discovered at that point that the larger iris store dry much better than the miniatures.... which I lost almost all of.  :o
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #336 on: May 20, 2009, 12:31:24 AM »
'Sable Night' I'm pretty sure, is BLACK,BLACK,BLACK. Very black and has a wide,flaring form. I don't have it now but my memory can't be THAT bad, can it? It was raised by Cook in the USA, and released 1950 according to the Google link that I found. There are 7 pics available in the link and I'll swear every one is of a different iris. ???
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #337 on: May 20, 2009, 12:44:18 AM »
I've never grown a great many talls because I've always lived in very windy gardens and our beastly, gale force nor'west winds (off Australia, YOUR fault), always come just when the talls are starting to bloom. I'm gradually replacing some and getting a few new ones. Buying 3 tall blacks for my black garden (still a thought in my head, but hopefully next spring/summer). But I have a lot of standards and minis and am adding every summer. I love them. The "table" or miniature tall beared are super too, elegant and graceful, less chunky than the big talls.

Paul I plant to be buried under one of my larger troughs.
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #338 on: May 20, 2009, 08:17:30 AM »
Quote from: Paul T on May 19, 2009, 11:28:31 PM

I have about 100 or so cultivars here, although I used to grow around 400 or so and rent a back yard to grow them in.  I had to downsize at one point.  ::) 


Some people never cease to amaze me...  ;D ;D
I bet Fermi grows an awful few too...  :D
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #339 on: May 20, 2009, 08:45:00 AM »
Paul  ;D ;D ;D
I have a way with words, sometimes.....
I do have a knack for putting my foot in my mouth too!
Lesley, under a trough? Why not plant up the sarcophagus of an ancient Egyptian Queen, much more fitting?
Paul - by which I am implying a link to royalty not things that are ancient!
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #340 on: May 20, 2009, 08:49:23 AM »
Quote from: Luc Gilgemyn on May 20, 2009, 08:17:30 AM
Quote from: Paul T on May 19, 2009, 11:28:31 PM
I have about 100 or so cultivars here, although I used to grow around 400 or so and rent a back yard to grow them in.  I had to downsize at one point.  ::) 
Some people never cease to amaze me...  ;D ;D
I bet Fermi grows an awful few too...  :D
Luc,
like Lesley I mainly grow the smaller ones but unlike her I don't intend to bury any basketballers in our garden ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Lesley Cox on May 20, 2009, 12:44:18 AM
Buying 3 tall blacks for my black garden (still a thought in my head, but hopefully next spring/summer). But I have a lot of standards and minis and am adding every summer.
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #341 on: May 20, 2009, 09:21:45 AM »
The rumours of my early demise under a pile of Iris in New Zealand are simply untrue. ;) ;) ;D  Thus, here are two more that bloomed this morning.  Now, I'm off to work.  Hate it!

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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #342 on: May 20, 2009, 01:08:43 PM »
Jamie,

Iris 'Crow's Feet' was apparently by Black, 2006 (just to fill in your ?)
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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #343 on: May 20, 2009, 07:44:51 PM »
Here is the second of my small collection of 50p lost label dwarf?? beardies. Again about 90cm high



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Re: Bearded Iris 2007 to 2009
« Reply #344 on: May 20, 2009, 10:47:58 PM »
That's another nice one David. Well worth the 50p. :D

Took me a moment to work that one out Fermi, not being a fan particularly and in any case, none of my troughs is longer than a metre. I'd need them to be 2 at least.

As for sarcophagi, I was very taken with the Roman ones in various ruined castles and assorted excavations, in Britain and would have loved to bring home a collection. They even have a good drainage hole, presumably for the putrifying body to drain away. Good depth, natural stone, what more could one want?
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